Summary

Wow, I can't believe I have completed 23 things. It has truly been a pleasure. Learning all of this stuff has opened my eyes to the use of so much technology. And to make this sound even worse, most of the things we are learning about were created by children, young adults. My favorite was blogging in general. I like the different aspects of socializing. When I was in school, we had pen pals that lived in other states and countries. It took forever for us to communicate with each other. Now it takes a matter of seconds. We have come a long way, because I am not that old!!! I really enjoyed animoto and the stikkit. Those are 2 things I will surely continue. This program has taught me that I am living like the Flintstones. The only thing that I found unexpected was the amount of time it took to do some of the things. I loved the flow of the program. There may be a couple of things that could be moved around. I would participate in another discovery program, because I love to learn on my terms. AS a teacher the things I have learned will help me tach different concepts and stay organized. I will follow my RSS feeds and continue to blog. I am a blogger now.

Thing 23

Creative Commons is a site that I will use to make sure I am not violating copyright laws. It gets kind of tricky on what you can and can't use. I must make sure i am not violating the copyright law and using someone's work without their permission. That would be stealing. I am here to shape and mold the minds of innocent children and I can not teach them what is right if I am not doing the right thing. I noticed that Learning 2.0 gave credit to Helene Bowers and they also gave credit to the California School Library Association for its adaption. It also tells us that this permission was granted under the Creative Commons License.

Thing 22

Podcasting was ok but I did not find it very useful. It may be useful for the students to be able to look up things of interest, however I could not find much of an educational need for me or a personal need. Educational podcast directory was the site I searched. It was simple to use and I did not have to register for anything (thank goodness). I feel like all of my personal business is floating around in cyberspace.

Thing 21

I enjoyed using this feature. I think this would be something we could use for our school's web site. When we have things happening at school we can take pictures and post them online to the school's web page. I will continue to use this feature at home and at school. It was easy to set up, I just wish they had more musical selections.

Thing 20

I chose the first video because I am a math teacher who is always looking for innovative ways to capture students attention. The second video I chose because I belong to the sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha. We are celebrating 100 years of existence and I was not able to attend boule. I found that it was hard for me to come up with video titles that I really wanted to see. The thing I did not like was the fact that you had to look at all of the videos to find the one that you really wanted to use. Unless it is a video that I have place on you tube, I don't think I will be using it. As far as school related, the only benefit I can see is using tags for references.

Thing 19

Visit 23 Thingsters

All of this social networking is fun, however I still can't get into it. I don't have enough time to sit and look at profiles, pictures, and find friends. I can't see how this is beneficial to me. I am not a member of any of these sites besides ning and myspace. The only thing I would like to see is a site for christian adults. I guess I need to start that one:)

Thing 18

Find me on MySpace and be my friend!
I already had a my space account. I have 2 teenage sons and several teenage nieces. During my family reunion on July 4th. they decided that I needed to be on my space. This turned out to be a good thing because they set up the account for me. Now I have got to try to figure out how to keep my students from knowing about it. There should be a place for you to only allow certain types of people to invite you to be their friend. I don't really see any reason to use this at school, other than for social networking. This is a good way for old friends to reconnect. I found out that I can see some of my friends, friend's and that allows me to invite them to be my friend.