Thing # 24

I really enjoyed the 23 things for the most part. It was eye opening and an adventure. I learned a lot of neat tools to use in the classroom. The 23 things was well worth the time and effort put into in and I am thankful that I had this opportunity. Without this I would not have all these new tools available to my knowledge. My favorite part was the sign generators. I will most definitly use these in my classroom among other things. I am going to try and keep up my blog and utilize it. I think this will be a good way to connect with partents and post random things going on in my classroom.

Thing # 23

The 23 things was based of the 43 things done by Stephen Abram. I am sure the copyright was allowed to be used by APSU to make the 23 things. I plan to use creative commons in the classroom one day because it allows me to use some things without asking permission, or it makes it easier to ask permission as well. I really found this activity useful and will probably make sure to utilize this specific tool.

Thing # 22

http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=87471

I did not like this. I may eventually come around to this website but it was really difficult to figure out. The concept is really great but it is not user friendly. It has a lot of stuff all over the page and it is hard to find exactly what you are looking for. All in all I probably will not use this website, and it was not my favorite of these 23 things.

Thing # 21

Lady A Concert! This was a really cool site, but it was VERY time consuming. There was a lot of wasted time and sitting around. It was a really cool end result but I don't know how much I will use this seeing as I do not have a lot of time on my hands. It was a good idea but it took a lot of time.

Thing #20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIxI7y6is04
This is actually my cousin praying with his Daddy. I love the fact that anyone can make this. I would definitly use youtube in my classroom! There is so much that can be done with it in the classroom, and so much more interactive than a powerpoint. I used this video to demonstrate how easy it is to make a creation of your own on youtube, you do not have to be a technology guru to be able to do this. I love this.

Thing #19

I am a member of Teacherpop and I have left comments and upload pictures previously. I actually really LOVE this social network but I currently cannot log onto it because I forgot my password and it won't send it to me because APSU changed their email accounts. I really enjoy this social network though. I looked at the other social networks but did not choose to join any of them because they did not appeal to me. I already have so much going on in my life I do not have time to use more than facebook. As you can see I did not even use my teacher pop that often. I do think these are useful though.

Thing # 18

I currently have a facebook and a twitter. I only made the twitter account because of this project and I don't like it very much. It just is not for me, so people it works for them but not me. I love love love my facebook. I can get in contact with old friends, classmates, I can communicate with colleagues and search for fellow Thirty One consultants (because I sell that) and it makes it easy to talk with everyone in one setting. Facebook allows me to search for the people I am observing right now and get background information on them as well. The downfall to this site is that ANYONE can search for you unless you have your setting set to where you cannot be searched for. I highly recommend monitoring what you post on facebook because it can be seen by everyone and you are judged on that matter.

Thing #17

I explored the delicious website and others, and I honestly found it extremely confusing. I did not like it, it was not something I could teach my Kindergardeners to use easily. I probably will not be having my students do any outside searches on the computer anyway so this would not be something useful for my classroom. (But good to know for the future!)