Is it the end or only the beginning?

My favorite exercise on this journey was Exercise 9 I really like working with the pictures and being creative with what you can do with them. I love art and I feel like this in a way is art. This program has affected my lifelong learning goals because now I want to learn more about technology and all the wonderful ways that you can use it to improve the education of my students. One unexpected outcome from this program was that working with technology is a lot easier than I thought it would be! I  don't think there was anything that should have been differently I really enjoyed the program. I will use what I have learned from this program and continue to use it in my future teaching career. I plan to keep up with developments in web 2.0 by joining some teacher blogs. My resolution is to continue to learn and stay on top of the new technologies that come out that can improve education.

Thing 23

When we first started this 23 things blog I thought that these were just made up for this class. After doing some research I came across this website :

http://schoollibrarylearning2.csla.net/2007/02/23-things_27.html

and learned that 23 things was created for teachers to become more knowledgeable about Web 2.0 tools.

Now that I know more about the Creative Commons Licensing I am going to be a lot wiser about what kind of Clip Art and Pictures I use from the internet. I will also make sure my students are well aware of the Creative Commons so that they can also make smarter choices about what they use on the internet.

Thing 22

I titled my binders Learning resources, worksheets, and lesson plans.  Here is the link to my binder titled lesson plans: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=703083. I think that i will use Livebinders for my own personal use in the classroom. However you could also use it with students by making your binders public and then letting the students access which websites you want them to use.

Thing 21

I cannot get Animoto to work with me at all. Setting up the video was not a problem at all but when I went to watch the preview its comes up as a loading screen and has been loading for over an hour. I tried to push skip and produce and the same thing happens. So I am sorry to say I will not have my Animoto video on my blog, nor will I ever be able to view it since it is taking so long to load!

Thing 20

The video I found is titled "We're More Alike Than Different" and it just melted my heart, because it is so true and these people are just amazing! I love using YouTube, I usually use it to look up music though. I choose the video that I did because I plan on being a Special Education teacher and this video just hit home for me. I think that it would be very interesting if this was applied to the library website and would make the it a lot more interesting.

Thing 19

I really like the teacher pop and Ning websites because they were just for teachers and it is nice to blog to other teachers and get ideas. I really like the fact that you have to be approved to post a video and a member before you can post anything. I will sue teacher pop for sure in my future teaching career I liked this on best because it reminded me most of Facebook.

Thing 18

It is important to know how to work social networking sites because social networking is such a a big part of life now a days (my Grandpa even has a Facebook!) I really like twitter because it is constantly refreshing new "tweets" with information and there are a lot of different twitter accounts for education news. I like Facebook because being so far away from home it makes it easy keep up with my family. I am not a huge fan of Twitter because i think that there is more junk then good on it. I don't know if i would feel comfortable using either of these websites for he classroom or school.