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.