My Thoughts, Your Thoughts, Everybody's Thoughts

This is a review by me for Thoughts.com Thoughts is a social networking website, that uses blogs, various communication widgets, etc to communicate, and socialize with other members. I am doing a review of the website, and below are my thoughts.

First let me say, I do not usually do a review without trying the product first. So I signed up to be a member. It was easy enough, just add your email, user name, and password. Then a confirmation email is to come to you, to confirm your membership. I waited, and waited for the confirmation email to come, but it never did. Today, I attempted to log back onto the site, to see if I could have it resent, and it said I was deactivated. I never got an email to say why, and I checked all spam emails as well. This was actually annoying to me, and the site tech might want to look into it.

Since I could not actually use it, I have to review what I read, and saw. It does appear to be strictly for bloggers, so if you don't have a blog, it won't be useful to you. You can socialize with others bloggers using creative widgets, that allow you to communicate with each other, and post snippets of your blog posts. There is a forum for members to communicate amongst each other, and management of the site. There is a daily news section, where members can discuss breaking news, or news topics that are important to them. They have a, one love policy, and require all members to be respectful, and courteous to each other. They do not expect everyone to get along always, or even agree all the time, but nasty treatment of each other will not be tolerated. Thoughts is ultimately for people who love to write, socialize, and enlighten each other on the topics of today, and the future. If you want to get your blog noticed, your thoughts read, and even maybe a good intelligent argument, than Thoughts.com may just be the site for you. Hop on over, and check it out. If you join, let me know what you think of it, and what your experience is.


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Lessons for 9/4/08, Question About Yahoo Buzz, Great Field Trip Idea

This post is packed full today. I have limited time, now, so I am adding more than one thing per post on most days.

First is a question. Has anyone tried Yahoo Buzz, yet? I know it is fairly new, but I am interested in what users think of it. What do you like, or dislike, about it?

Second, for any of my local readers, to the Gainesville area. The Gainesville Museum, has a cool exhibit called Grossology. It is basically a travel through the Human Body. I thought it was a great field trip idea, and we will definately be going to it. That makes 4 field trips, we have planned so far. It is open from 10 AM-4PM Sept 27th-Jan 11th, so there is plenty of time to see it.

Here are our lessons for 9/4/08
Spelling Lesson 1- put your spelling words in alphabetical order

Vocabulary Lesson 1- write the definition for each vocab word two times each

Math- muliplication, addition, subtraction, expanded notations

Language Arts- nouns, phonics review, punctuation

Reading- read chapter 3 of Dinosaurs Before Dark

Writing- tell what makes a good friend

Health- care of your eyes and ears, and how healthy are you?

If you want a cool website to help with teaching of your body, here are two http://homeschooling.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=homeschooling&cdn=education&tm=19&gps=69_207_1362_583&f=00&tt=13&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.kidshealth.org/misc_pages/mybody_SW.html and http://homeschooling.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=homeschooling&cdn=education&tm=15&gps=113_58_1362_583&f=00&tt=13&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.optima-hyper.com/eyetests/kidsquiz/KIDSAFE.htm The second is an eye test, you take with your kids.

PE- 30 minutes

Recess- 30 minutes

Spanish if time permits

Caitlin will be starting preschool at the local library, on Fridays, in addition to preschool at home. This weeks arts and crafts project, is a surprise, and is usually done on Fridays. However, due to the length of time involved I will be doing it either Wed or Thurs of this week. I recently painted our master bath, and my husband suggested letting the kids paint on the cupboards. At first I was like, no way, they have never really painted. He laughed and said, who cares, only we use that bathroom, and it will have lasting memories. So that is the art project for this week. I bought some special stencils, and we will see how it goes. Stay tuned for pictures of the outcome.