ONE LAST THING

My favorite discovers was creating my own video in THING 21, Google Earth, and learning about all the great things Google offers now such as a document, paint, calendar and so on.  The program has enlightened me on how much I did not know about the Internet and that with our changing times in order to be a lifelong learning you need to know how to use the tools in the world to help you learn.  When the day comes and all of the books are online and I do not know how to get to them how will I be able to continue my education?  I did not have any unexpected outcomes from this program.  I was surprised at how many different websites that I had to apply to in order to finish my 23 THINGS.  I did not personally enjoy signing up for a lot of websites but I do not see how you could prevent that and still accomplish the end goal for this project.  What I have learned in this class will provide a lot of tools that will help me be a better teacher.  It is important to keep students attention and using the tools from this class I will be ahead of the game.   I already know that keeping up with new developments on web 2.0 is going to be a challenge for me since I do not enjoy using online tools as much as others.  In order to keep up I can see it important to go to teacher development days that are technology driven.  It may also be beneficial to research the web and keep up with the new developments from reading the Internet.

THING 23

Creative Commons licensing is a very good tool to understand and have in ones tool belt of knowledge.  As a future educator I will insure that my students understand and apply Creative Commons to their own work.  It also allows me to know if and how I can legally use certain items that I come across that would be great to use in the classroom. 

THING 22

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=440974


I created two binders that are named THING 22 (education) and Farming (for fun).  LiveBinders could be used by the teacher to keep web lesson plans organized and all in one spot.  It keeps a teacher from re looking up a site or even losing a site.  For the students LiveBinder could be used for a class web project.  The teacher can assign for every student to located X amount of sites for the subject being covered in class and then be placed in to the LiveBinder for the teacher to grade. 

THING 20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

"Somebody I used to Know" by Gotye
I enjoy YouTube.  There is a lot of great interesting videos on this site.  I do not like that sometimes you end up finding things that are not appropriate.  I choose a recording of the group Gotye playing on one guitar their new release "Somebody I used to Know."  It is a great video to watch that displays great musical talent along with a nicely written song.
This site could be very educational for most of any subjects and would be a good addition to a library website as long as there was good filters to keep unwanted material from being seen. 

THING 19

I am a member of facebook, twitter and teacher pop.  I find facebook to be some what addicting at times.  Doing thing 18 was a little distracting for me.  I caught myself looking at what my friends had been up to instead of working through my 23 Things.  I am not very big on using social networks, besides facebook to read what crazy things my friends have been up to.  I do not post to the world my every update or much of anything.  I did find it interesting that there is a social networking site targeted for people who enjoy the same things or have the same job (i.e. teaching).  I did not find anything that I may use later on these social networking sites.  

THING 18

It is important for educators to know how social networking works for a number of reasons.  To start, teachers need to know how social networking works to prevent the wrong information reaching the public world.  Keeping up with today's networking helps teachers to connect to the world that the students are living.  It also allows teachers to connect with each other and help become better teachers. I have been a member of facebook for a number of years; so I did not gain much insight to the facebook world.  I like how facebook reports what my closest friends are doing and posting.  I do not like how people can send you silly game request.  Those drive me crazy.  I do like facebook over Twitter.  I think part of that is I am more comfortable using facebook over twitter.  I do not think that social networking has a place in the classroom.  There are too many unknowns that can be found in the social networking that may upset parents. 

THING 17

Delicious is a good tool that simplifies bookmarking and tagging and also allows for you to be able to find your favorite websites no matter what computer you are using.  I can see potential use for this in the classroom.  The teacher can easily find resources for class.  It also can keep the students from drifting off while on the Internet.  If the teacher has a web assignment she can bookmark the certain websites that the students should visit and Delicious provides a place for all of the information to be housed on one web page.  As a teacher Delicious' social side can help share information such as lesson plans or education updates, with fellow teachers with in a building, a school district, the state and any where the Internet  is possible to have.