New Zealand

This is going to be the place I try to update while I am on my trip to New Zealand for the Pan Pacific games in Auckland. I am currently down in Placentia, California where we are training for four days. We have 13 boy and girls from Ukiah in Northern California and we are training with 9 girls from El Dorado High School, and 5 boys from St John Bosco High School in southern California. We leave Tuesday night on our 17 hour flight........ yeah!

It is winter over there so it will be a little cold but the beauty is still breathtaking. The trip will be for 16 days and we will be playing water polo the entire time. There will be a day or two we get free to tour the North end of the island. I will try to visit the Shire and meet some hobbits, HAHA. We plan on staying at Sacred Heart High School which is a private high school their in Auckland. So keep checking every few days and hopefully I will have a few pictures up with updates on our trip.

Librbary Thoughts

I was reading my way through librarything and at first I didn't thing to much on it. Once I I signed up and started adding the recent books I have read I began to feel a little differently about it. I stated to play wit the tags and look up other books similar to those I have read. A lot of them look really good. I will most likely began to search more books to read. I am more into the athletics type books. I really enjoy reading books by other coaches and seeing things from their prospective. There have been many time were I have been in a book store searching for specific books or books on a specific topic and couldn't find anything. Librarything make that search so much more simple. You can also find places to buy your book through this site. So as I said earlier, I was a was not to fond of it in the beginning but as I got used to the site and signed up for it I began to get a diff rent feel. I will probably continue to utilize this site more when the class is over. Here is a link to my catalog. Hope you enjoy.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/suhovy04

My Image Generator

So I had a chance to play with the image generator and I had a little to much fun. I am actually going to send some of the pictures to my buddies. I think it is great to have access to stuff like that if you don't have something like photo shop on your computer. There is a lot out there you can play with. I plan on spending some more time paying with a lot of the other different sites. I need to load more of my pictures to my computer now. I have included one picture of me and my buddies last summer posted on two different magazine covers, Sweet! The top picture I was able to create my own title. The second picture was putting your picture on a popular magazine that already exists. I have also included the links for both, have fun.

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/magazine.php (Guys Weekly picture)
http://www.comicstripgenerator.com/dvd/anime-character-generator.htm (GQ picture)


Made with free image tools @ TXT2PIC.com

Podcasting

So I recently have been introduced to the world of podcasting. I am still new to the idea of this and how to make it more convenient. As i tried to link my choices to my blog lines account I found it to be a little more difficult than I would like. My brother in law got me using itunes and I like using that much more. I have several podcast I listen to regularly on my itunes player. My next step is to invest in a ipod so can load my podcasts onto that for long trips. Podcasting is great for those who do not have cable television or time to sit and watch all their favorite shows. Or you might miss your favorite radio broadcast one week and want to catch up. Podcasting is limitless. Professors use it to broadcast lectures for the week and make them available to all there students. So for me podcasting is great and look forward to learning more about it, finding more feeds I enjoy and figuring out how to load them up a little more resourcefully.

So You Think You Can Dance Friend

So I posted this video only because i just found out this young girl Kherington is the daughter of a good friend of mine down south. In fact he and I are traveling to New Zealand this summer for a water polo tournament. She made it through to Vegas.... Sweet. He is really proud of her, she's a good girl. Watch for her on some upcoming episodes. We will see how she does. Its makes the show more fun when you actually know someone and want to cheer them on. It adds emotion to the show. If it wasn't for You Tube I would have never seen this video.

You Tube Thought.

So as I continue my journey into the technological world of kinesiology I am beginning to shift my school of thought. I still feel there are a lot of things out there that can be too time consuming and useless. We will still get wrapped up in spending to much time on our computers if we aren't careful. Yet I have had my eyes open to so many things that I never new about. You Tube is not one of those things. This is actually a site I visit on a regular basis. I have so many favorite that I had a hard time deciding which one to put on my blog. This particular video is a Mikasa Water Polo add and is great. If you search mikasa and watch there videos they have some great one's with all sports and athletes. There is even a good one with kids playing in a school yard. You Tube can be used for fun, for knowledge, sharing memories, and so much more. All our support videos for class have been You Tube Videos. You can find news clips, sports clips, commercials, music videos, how too videos and just about anything else you are looking for. There are some videos of people doing some pretty stupid and incriminating things though. There was the group of high school kids that jumped a girl and held her captive in their house for an Internet video. So it has encouraged students to do some dumb things in order to gain there 3 minutes of fame, although it may not be positive attention it is attention. Those are isolated cases and I hope there stupidity doesn't ruin or overshadow the positive of this type of site. I really like all that you tube has to offer and I am beginning to enjoy the web 2.0 world more and more each day. Hope you enjoy the video.

Techno what?

So I just got done looking through and improved blogsphere search tool Technorati. It was a little hard to get around at first because the video I watched about it was a little different than the actual sight. Once I got things figured out I enjoyed looking around. There is a lot of information out there to look at. The one thing I found is that I came up with a lot of internal difficulties. The "im sorry" page kept popping up. It was a Little frustrating. Although I can understand a little if they are really tracking 51 million blogs. I get confused keeping track of the 20 or so blog sites that I look at regularly. As far as the concept goes I really like it because it really gets blogs out there for all to see. It is easy to go through and expands your options. I tried just using Google one day and the search was limited. Technorati was more user friendly to me. I guess it is time to really start thinking about using Del.icio.us now. Or I guess I can utilize my bloglines account now a Little more. At the rate I am going though it will get really big really fast and seem overwhelming. Wait...it already seems that way. There is just to much to read in to little time. All in all I like the new ideas and resources out there for us to utilize. Now it is time to figure out how I can use all this new technology in my program.