My Final Thoughts....

My final thoughts about 23 Things.
I have learn so much about technology! I never knew about half of the websites, applications, and blogs out on the web. I will defintely be using most of these things in the future when I become a teacher. Some of my favorite things were the picture genrators! I can make some awesome poster for my futre classroom. I liked the livebinders storage! It is such a great idea to hold all of my information in one location that I can get to anywhere and on any computer! The RSS readers are great too! I like that I can get updates from my favorite blogs and news websites. The Animoto website I love it! I can make video clips that are education for students and I can make ones like in my blog! I love the Google things! The Google Calendar...I use it all the time now! I love how it sends me text messages and emails about what is coming up on my calendar. I also love the fact that you can create on for the classroom to inform and update parents and students about when assignments are due, upcoming projects, and events at the school! It is a great way to keep the parents active and informed!

Thing 23: The Last Thing! Creative Commons

 Learning 2.0-23Things for Teachers blog was based on 43 Things I might want to do this year. And Our 23 Things is based off of 23 Things for teachers.  43 Things is the idea of working on one's own progress for personal goals. It is a really cool ideas. Maybe when I have extra time I might consider doing those 43 Things.

Creative Commons Vision...
         Realizing the full potential of the internet — universal access to research, education, full participation in culture, and driving a new era of development, growth, and productivity.

As a future teacher I could use Creative Commons by sharing picture with my students that are some right reserved (CC). I can teach my students on the proper ways to use Copyrights and Creative Commons.

Thing 22: LiveBinders

Being organize it very important in school as a teacher and a student. This class has shown me a lot of different websites that will keep me organized. This one is a little trickier than some of the others that we learned about. But it is still a good one and probably one that I will be using.


LiveBinders

Educ 3040 Things


The first binder that I made was Educ 3040 Things. I have put in some of the websites that we have talked about in class and on 23 Things in this binder. My second binder is for my Sped class. I put resources in it for my research paper. My third binder is just a binder of random websites that I like.

Thing 21: Video Clips on Animoto

This website is so cool! I had a really easy and fun experience making my video clip. It has step by step instruction on how to upload pictures, choose a background, and to choose a song. This would be a fun class project and just fun to make home video clips like I did! I will definity be using this in the future!



Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Thing 19: Other Social Networks

I am not a member of any of the other social networking sites. I am just on Facebook. I am not really interesting in becoming a member of any sites. I am usually busy with college, raising my daughter, and taking care of things while my husband is deployed. So I really don't have time to add another thing into my life. :)  When I become at teacher I might use a social networking site for educators such as TeacherPop! I do really like that social networking site!


My TeacherPop





Visit TeacherPop

Thing 20: YouTube

I do like YouTube. I can see the benifits of YouTube in a classroom or library setting. What I don't like about YouTube is the fact that you can find anything and everything on this site.


I picked a video about Goofy and teachers. My daughter like Mickey Mouse and all of his character friends! And this video is cute!

YouTube is a good website to find "how to's" and tutorials.

Thing 18: Social Networking 101

It is important for educators to know how to use social networking because that is what is in now.  Teacher can connect with students, parents, and colleagues. I can see a teacher creating a facebook account for professional career to talk with students and parents. They can post assignments, project, and other information since most students are on facebook anyways. It is easier access to for a student to get help for the teacher when they are not at school.


Personally I like facebook over twitter. I used myspace when it was popular, but I moved to facebook. I use facebook because most of my family and friends use it. We can talk and share pictures. My husband is deployed so this is a way for him to see pictures easily of our daughter. I like facebook because it is easier for me.


I do have a twitter account only because I had to create it for 23 Things.


Facebook


Twitter