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One Last Thing

On this learning journey, my favorite discoveries were Flickr and TeacherPop. This program has affected my lifelong learning goals, by giving me more insight on the teachnologies out there and available. This will help the students in my future classroom. It tells me that learning goals are more reachable and possible with technology. I didn't really come across any unexpected outcomes from this program. The only thing I can think of that could be done differently in this program is more teacher interaction. What I have learned will influence my practice as a teacher because I will implement some of the things I learned in this program in my future classroom. I plan on keeping up with the developments my bookmarking this page and seeing of anything changes in the future.

Thing Number 23

I would use the tutorial I made in our project for this class in teaching about Creative Commons in the future.
The entire 23 Things site is all over the US, so it is modified for each school that uses it.

Thing Number 22

I used Education Podcast Network. I have used this site before when we created a podcast for our project. It is very easy to use and navigate. I listened to Radio WillowWeb #33 . It was adorable. It is 2nd graders discussing art. I have already created a podcast for class, but will probably not create another one. No, there wasn't really one I found that I would subscribe to and listen to regularly.

Thing Number 21

I really like Animoto. I am going to use on MySpace and Facebook! It was a lot of fun and easy! I just hate that it takes so long to create at the end!

Thing Number 20

I love YouTube! There are so many different things to watch, both educational and noneducational. You can find a lot of videos that are kind of like Discovery Streaming. About the only thing I dislike is sometimes it is hard to find the same video twice! There are components that would be interesting if I applied to the library website, such as the educaional channels. My only fear would be students being able to see other things on the site because there is a lot of things they should not see!
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I chose this video because children would love this video and it is educational!

Thing Number 19

Other than MySpace and Facebook I am a member of Xanga. This site is appealing to me but not as appealing as the other sites. I also really liked TeacherPop. I found this site interesting and a site that I would most likely use later. I like that it is all about education, not just social networking! If it isn't about education you shouldn't post it. I found a few friends from APSU too!

Thing Number 18

My Facebook Page
My MySpace Page
It is important for educators to know about social networking so they can understand their students and what they like. It is also important so they know the lingo, when someone says they are going to write in their wall, the teacher needs to know what that means! I really didn't gain any new insights because I have been a member of both MySpace and Facebook for quite a while. I love both sites, it is a great way to keep up with friends and know what is going on in their lives. The only thing I dislike is the new layout of Facebook, but I am getting use to it! I find MySpace to be more useful and easy to navigate and use. I can see a classroom or school using Facebook, not MySpace so much. You can get all of your students on the same Facebook page and they can communicate with you and other students.

Thing Number 17

I like the delicious site, but I did not like Furl. It just seemed harder to use. Delicious seems very helpful. I guess I had heard of social networking but never really knew what it was. I thought it was MySpace and Facebook. I can see the potential of delicious in the classroom. I see it more helpful for teachers though than students. Teachers can take advantage of the sites easily. If they are having problems finding information on a particular topic they can hopefully find the information that another teacher had previously found.

Thing Number 16

I chose iGoogle for my start page. It appealed to me because I already know a lot about Google. No, I won't make it my permanent home page because I already have a home page with AT&T that I have personalized myself. I would recommend iGoogle to anyone who doesn't already have a permanent home page. It has a lot of useful things like the calendar and news.

The online calendars could be useful to me by posting all of my students birthdays and making sure I get a reminder for them and we can mention it in class and have a mini-celebration. It can also keep me organized with important dates and times. The to-do lists were helpful. I make all kinds of to-do lists at home and at school, in fact, I have one today telling me what 23 Things I have not answered and need to do!!

Thing Number 15

I might use a wiki in my classroom to have my students communicate with one another and with me. It could be really neat when having a class party and have a list of what we need and then have the students get on and tel what they will bring and move that over to the things being brought category, so each student can see what is already being brought and what is still needed.
I find the wiki concept interesting because anyone can edit a comment no matter if they have an account or not. Now, this can be good and bad, but hopefully people will use it in the way it was intended and not be nasty.

Thing Number 14

I chose MindMapping and Gliffy . Mindmapping is a pretty neat tool. I would find this great in planning projects. Because when I try to plan a project, my mind is all over the place! So, this would really help me! Gliffy is also very neat. I think, it would be great to use in our project with the classoom drawing. It would also be great to use in the classroom for your discipline chart. It would name your punishments for the thing they did wrong.

Thing Number 13

I found an assessment template! This is very neat and will come in handy!! I could use the student homework template also. It could be used for students who were absent and missed the assignments.
I love all the templates! There are 50, you can use them for work or home. I like this site for the templates, not so much for word documents. I would rather just use Word.

Thing Number 12

Calendar

Picasa Album

I found using these tools to be simple. I use a calendar a lot but I do not think I could get use to using one online. I would rather just use my paper one. The calendar could be used in the classroom for students to keep up with their assignments and try to stay on top of them!

Thing Number 11

I found Google's search tool to be the easiest for finding feeds because all you had to do was put in the search bar on the main page what you were looking for and up it popped! Blogline's was the hardest for me to find feeds. I would search and had a hard time pulling up anything of interest. There are lots of useful feeds, but I found the feeds related to my area the most interesting. I found feeds that automatically popped up for Nashville, TN. This was neat, I could see what was going on near me that I may not have known about.

Thing Number 10

I like RSS and newsreaders because its saves me valuable time that I really do not have and it is easy and fun to do! From now on, my sites are going to come to me! I like the sound of that! I could use this is my personal life to find out about blogs related to teaching. If there is anything new that occurs, I will know! I could use this in school to link to my students blogs that I asked for them to set up in class, this way they can talk to me about anything they want!
Teachers can use RSS to communicate with each other through blogging. They can also use it to connect to anything informative that has to do with teaching.

Thing Number 9

The FotoTrix generator could be used on Mother's and Father's Day to allow kids to frame pictures of themselves or their families and give to their parent.

Thing Number 8

Flickr could be used in my classroom when I am discussing a topica nd have the children find a picture realtive to that topic. There are so many different pictures they could all come in with a different one! I love sharing photos online! I have several friends all over the country and this is how we let each other see how our families grow!!

Thing Number 7

It was not hard at all to find images. In fact, it was quite fun! Flickr is great! So many great pictures and some that make you go, "ummm..."!!! It was hard choosing a picture, but I decided on one. the author is Josh Hunter and it is a picture of Union Station in Nashville. I decided to stay close to home on my picture and this is close to home and an oustanding picture!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41588491@N00/2434079868

Thing Number 6

http://www.mothersclick.com/

I viewed this site. It was great! I, of course, am a mom and found it insightful! It had all kinds of information and things to participate in. You could blog, ask questions, view what others had wrote and the responses they recieved, there were activities, recipes and even classifieds! It could be useful for parents of special needs children and any child! This could be used for mothers of the students in your classroom. You could set up a group just for them and they could communicate back and forth with each other and with you, the teacher. It would not be helpful for students.

Thing Number 5

School 2.0 means bringing technology into education. Not just in schools but at home as well. It is bringing education into the "New Age". School 2.0 means a lot for schools of the future. When you consider, technology is greatly improving and getting greater by the day, schools are going to have to keep up with this and keep students on the right track with technology so they will be prepared in the future. Technology is a fantastic tool and will be great for schools in the future. I picture class taking place (not too far in the near future)at the student's home via satellite. All communication will be done on the computer. Teachers will still be needed to teach the students but they can also teach from their homes. I am not sure this would be practical or even a great idea, but I believe it is the direction we are heading in. I viewed several of the links posted. They were interesting and gave basically the same definition of School 2.0, but worded differently. They were informative and gave several ideas of how to use technology in your classroom.

Thing Number 4

Commenting is important because it allows others to see possibly a different view point than their own and it lets others know you care and are interested!
The 7 blogs I am following are:
CreativeCox Great insight on things! She chose the same 2 things as her favorite that I did!
EDUC3040 23things Love the Pic with Little Girl! Cute pic of the dog on Flikr!
Kelsea Cox Finished WAY early! -Video was cute and it is addicting!
Kyle Christmas Great View Points! -Great for high schoolers!
Nicole Hardison's Blog Almost Done! -Loved doing the video too!
Samantha Nichols Good Job! -iGoogle was fun!
Telford's TeIachable Moments Funny! -Good Video

Thing Number 3

I was instructed to write about ways that you might use a blog in your teacher education program or your future classroom. I would use blogs in my future classroom to let the students interact with one another and respond to what each other is feeling. I might set up a topic of the day and let the students tell what they think of that particular topic.

Thing Number 2

It did not take me a long time to decide on the name of my blog. We were instructed to use our last name somewhere in the title and Curtis 2009, just seemed the easiest! I did not have a hard time at all decided where and how to post a blog. The avatar, on the other hand, Oh my!! I had a difficult time getting my avatar to accept changes, but after a while, it started to work.
My avatar definitely reflects my personality! I am a jeans kind of girl, but I like to pair them with a nice top and my background is in a cabin in the mountains. I love the mountains and I love cold weather!! My avatar looks something like me! Brown hair and blue eyes!

Thing Number 1

In thing number 1, I was asked to watch the tutorial and state which of the 7 1/2 habits was easiest and which would be my hardest. Well, I believe I have decided that my easiest would be #6. I definitely use technology to my advantage. I do not know what I would do without it! And my hardest would be # 7 1/2. I tend to take things too seriously. I don't take enough time to just play. I need to work on this for sure!
I hope that by playing with Web 2.0, I can learn some things about the Internet that I did not already know! Setting up my blog was not hard at all. Although, I feel that making an avatar may be more challenging!