Wait! I thought I was done? :)

I really enjoyed doing all of these 23 Things. I learned so much with using all of the different tools. This has helped me so much with technology and learning different websites and tools that I can use not only in my teaching career but also in my personal life as well. My favorite thing to do was Thing #21. It dealt with animoto. I loved creating this video. Although it could not be used as much in the classroom, I thought it was just really fun to do. But there were so many "things" that taught me how to use certain stuff. The only way I think doing these 23 Things could be improved is instead of having the first 12 due at midterm and the last 11 due at the final, is to split it up more and have 5 things due every so often. This way students don't procrastinate and rush in doing these "things". Because there really is some important information in doing these and I feel that many may have rushed through it because it is so easy to put off. I could use just about everything that I learned in doing these things in my teaching career. Doing this has really taught me a lot and even though sometimes they got tough, I really enjoyed it! :)

Thing #23

The 23 things is based off of Learning 2.0 designed by Helene Blowers. He program was based off of Stephen Abram's article 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year. This was stated in the about 23 things that Dr. Anne Wall created. This gave the proper credit to who it belonged to. Creative commons is used for someone wanting to make a picture, song, video, etc. avaliable to others. On this website you can chose how much of it another person can use and so on. Anytime you see the cc with the circle around it, it means you can use it. Just sometimes you have to give credit where credit is due.

Thing #22

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=685545

I really enjoyed using livebinders. I thought it was very different. I have never heard of an online binder such as this. This is a great way to save different websites that you like along with the information that you like to go with it. I made three binders. One being called math education. This is the one that I linked here at the top. I made this one because I want to be a math teacher and I can link and save different things that I find that will help be to be a better math teacher. Whether it be help for me as a teacher or help to a student. The next one that I made I called fun and games. Here I linked different sites that I found that would be fun for me to allow students to do in class that are dealing with the subject area that I am teaching. I really enjoyed learning about online binders.

Thing #21

The Most important people in my life

I really enjoyed making this video. It was very easy to do. This could be used in your classroom as a teacher. I would love to make one of these at the end of every school year to save to show to parents and students. Also I could keep them forever and be able to go back and remember all of the students I had. I absolutely loved doing this. Without a doubt it was my favorite "thing" to do.

Thing #20

I chose this video to watch because we as teachers need to remember that we will always make a difference in the lives of our students. And the impact that we make may be small or large but it will always be a great feeling. We need to continue every year with that goal.

I really like YouTube. Not only can you use it for your personal time to listen to music or watch videos that interest you but as a teacher we could easily use YouTube in a classroom. As a teacher we could add them into our powerpoints or just pull them up on the internet and show a video of the subject or idea that we are talking about. Watching a little video will get the students attention more than you just talking as a teacher. Also, I had a professor once that before every lecture or class was started she would pull up a funny video off a YouTube just to grap our attention and give us a good laugh before working time began. I loved this and thought it was a really good idea.

Thing #19

Exploring these different social networks was really interesting. It is a good way to communicate with others or get ideas. I signed up for TeacherPop. This is a great social networking place where teachers share many different ideas on lots of subjects and ideas. This is great for someone like myself who will just be starting out as a teacher needing many different ideas. I already have a facebook and twitter of my own, but there are very personal social networking places. They could be used in a classroom but for me they are more personal. This is a way for me to keep up with my friends and relatives that are close and many that are far.

Thing #15

All of this wiki sites kind of confused me. I think that a wiki could be useful in a classroom for group projects and such. Also for parents to log on a keep up to date with what it going on. Those are a few of the positives about wiki. But personally if I wanted something where parents and students could look up and keep up with what is going on I would rather use a classroom blog. The biggest problem about a Wiki is the fact that anyone can edit it or change another persons work. That is the same with Wikipedia. We as students are pushed about from using Wikipedia because it may not all be true since anyone can edit it. Therefore I am not a big fan of Wiki because it is the same way.