Thursday, September 18, 2008

Flickr

Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. You can upload, edit, organize, share, make stuff, keep in touch with friends, and map pictures. There are many ways to upload you videos and pics, 5 in fact, to make it easy to edit and share! Have red eyes? You can fix it with the edit function. You can also crop, rotate, and use special effects to make your personal pics into professional ones. Organize your photos, put them into sets(a group of photos that all have a similar theme). You can share your pics with people who have the same intrests or invite friends and family to view them. You can make stamps, credit cards, slide shows, photo books and cubes by adding your personal touch to your photos. Keep in touch with family and friends by getting updates. What pictures have been taken in katmandu, well you can look and see. Click on the map to see where pics have been taken. Totally cool!! There is more, you can use the masher to put different pics together as one.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

lifelong learning

Learning is something that we do every day, from the day we were born to the day that we... well you know. I can see every day that Malachai is learning new things. Some good... like walking without holding on to things, and some not so good... like unrolling and eating the toilet paper is fun. Malachai learns informally right now, like when you touch a button on the toy it makes noises. Later he will go to school and read from books and be taught by a teacher, formally. He always wants to learn and see how things work, he is a very active participant. He challenges himself by letting go, even though he will fall, he takes a chance. He shows great confidence because he trys and trys again. He loves to play with other kids, who also help him learn by showing him things(like his cousin, who likes to throw things at the TV). AND, most of all he likes to play!!!!!!!