Twenty three things has been a great and exciting journey. I have been excited to learn all of the new things I have in just these few short weeks, and I cannot wait to use some of the resources when I become a teacher myself.
I really loved learning about Flickr and the mashups and things like that, because I think they will be great for elementary students to use and they were easy to get the hang of.
I no longer have any excuse for not being organized, which I never though would come from the internet! But with all the resources out there of organizers and calenders, there really is no reason to not be organized because it's all right there, at the tips of your fingers.
This will definitely influence me as a teacher, because I've learned so much I would have never known before that I can use in the classroom! Most of the sites are kid-friendly, making my technology resources for the classroom grow that much more.
I plan to stay more informed on all the new things that are coming out--which will be easy now with everything I've signed up for to keep me in the loop! Knowing the new stuff will help me be able to use it in the classroom and surprise my kids with knowledge! ;)
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Thing 23
Knowing about Creative Commons is definitely a good thing. As teachers if we are going to share or find information on the web, we have to make sure we are able to actually use it! Being aware of this and always looking for copyright information will help me when I become an educator!
I saw that 23 things was based on something else because of the twenty three things themselves. I saw that you posted on the main page that they were based off of 43 things, that was really a bucket list of things to do.
I saw that 23 things was based on something else because of the twenty three things themselves. I saw that you posted on the main page that they were based off of 43 things, that was really a bucket list of things to do.
Thing 22
My three binders were Punctuation, Recognizing letters and Math.
Math
I picked the math binder to share because it had some interactive math games and things like that for children to learn math with.
Live Binders could be used in the classroom when you wanted to remember where you put a specific lesson plan or activity. You could also have a Kids Binder that holds games and things they can log onto and play when they have finished their coursework or something along those lines.It's also great to find resources for your class by searching through other binders that are public.
I picked the math binder to share because it had some interactive math games and things like that for children to learn math with.
Live Binders could be used in the classroom when you wanted to remember where you put a specific lesson plan or activity. You could also have a Kids Binder that holds games and things they can log onto and play when they have finished their coursework or something along those lines.It's also great to find resources for your class by searching through other binders that are public.
Thing 21
I really enjoyed creating a video on Animoto! It seemed like such a good site though and I wish you did not have to pay to get more than a 30 second song.
Instead of using my Flickr, I used pictures from my Facebook to create a beachy type of video (I miss the beach, this cold weather in TN is not doing it dor me, ha ha.) I couldn't get the music to work in the preview for me, so I just picked a song and I think it fits the video and how much I miss the beach! ;)
Make a video of your own at Animoto.
Instead of using my Flickr, I used pictures from my Facebook to create a beachy type of video (I miss the beach, this cold weather in TN is not doing it dor me, ha ha.) I couldn't get the music to work in the preview for me, so I just picked a song and I think it fits the video and how much I miss the beach! ;)
Make a video of your own at Animoto.
Thing 20
Alphabet Song
I have always loved YouTube; It's a great place to waste time (ha ha). I also like though that there are many educational videos as well. I chose this video because I want to teach a younger grade, and this video would be great for kindergartners. I like that videos on the side also pop up that are related so the kids would be able to hear other songs as well.
I have always loved YouTube; It's a great place to waste time (ha ha). I also like though that there are many educational videos as well. I chose this video because I want to teach a younger grade, and this video would be great for kindergartners. I like that videos on the side also pop up that are related so the kids would be able to hear other songs as well.
Thing 19
I was not a member of any online communities, but I did sign up for TeacherPop and Tasty Kitchen.
Teacher Pop seems like a great resource for teachers to use. I really like the forum tab and that it's real teachers and others wanting to be teachers that use the site!
I also signed up for Tasty Kitchen because my husband is always bugging me about learning to cook, so I figured while he is deployed I could learn some recipes and surprise him for when he gets home! Ha ha.
I am sure that I will use both of these sites later on, TeacherPop especially when I become an educator. It will be great to go on there and see what other teachers have posted about and see what I could use in the classroom!
Teacher Pop seems like a great resource for teachers to use. I really like the forum tab and that it's real teachers and others wanting to be teachers that use the site!
I also signed up for Tasty Kitchen because my husband is always bugging me about learning to cook, so I figured while he is deployed I could learn some recipes and surprise him for when he gets home! Ha ha.
I am sure that I will use both of these sites later on, TeacherPop especially when I become an educator. It will be great to go on there and see what other teachers have posted about and see what I could use in the classroom!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Thing 18
My Twitter Account My Facebook Account
Educators should know how social media sites work because their students certaintly will, and it will be something that they are very much interested in. If educators can use social media sites educationally, they will be able to catch the attention of their students. I didn't learn anything new about these sites because I've had them for quite a while and I've seen all the updates and things they've made. I like that Twitter seems to have almost everyone on it, including political leaders and such & that you can "follow" them & see their updates without being their friend or anything; with Facebook more things are usually private. However, I really like that fact, it seems like you can control your privacy more with Facebook. One usueful aspect of Facebook, especially if being used in the classroom is the event tab. You can put due dates for assignments there and students will have the countdown as a constant reminder on the side of their homepage.
Educators should know how social media sites work because their students certaintly will, and it will be something that they are very much interested in. If educators can use social media sites educationally, they will be able to catch the attention of their students. I didn't learn anything new about these sites because I've had them for quite a while and I've seen all the updates and things they've made. I like that Twitter seems to have almost everyone on it, including political leaders and such & that you can "follow" them & see their updates without being their friend or anything; with Facebook more things are usually private. However, I really like that fact, it seems like you can control your privacy more with Facebook. One usueful aspect of Facebook, especially if being used in the classroom is the event tab. You can put due dates for assignments there and students will have the countdown as a constant reminder on the side of their homepage.
Thing 17
I've used before and never knew it was a social media bookmarking site; I definitely knew the social media part though because I know I waste a lot of time on there, ha ha.
If anyone has ever been to Pinterest, I think that could be considered a socia media bookmarking site as well. You can tag any page to Pinterest under certain categories, including an educatiob tab. It's a great resource page, but there is a lot that is NOT related to education as well so it definitely can be a distraction!
Delicious seemed like a very helpful source & I can see how this can help educators. If two different educators find ten different resources each that can help them & share it, both of them now have twenty resources they can use, which is great. Educators won't have to search the complete web for different things now, they can go to one site & look under a certain topic & find things they need. This could be used how we used Diigo in the classroom, even for elementary. You can have students research a certain topic or something, and have them save it to this website, and then they can find their page and present it to the class. It's pretty great! :)
If anyone has ever been to Pinterest, I think that could be considered a socia media bookmarking site as well. You can tag any page to Pinterest under certain categories, including an educatiob tab. It's a great resource page, but there is a lot that is NOT related to education as well so it definitely can be a distraction!
Delicious seemed like a very helpful source & I can see how this can help educators. If two different educators find ten different resources each that can help them & share it, both of them now have twenty resources they can use, which is great. Educators won't have to search the complete web for different things now, they can go to one site & look under a certain topic & find things they need. This could be used how we used Diigo in the classroom, even for elementary. You can have students research a certain topic or something, and have them save it to this website, and then they can find their page and present it to the class. It's pretty great! :)
Thing 16
I chose iGoogle for my start page because it actually already is my start page on my laptop. I tried to get PageFlakes to work so I could do something different, but it would not load for me. :( (My computer seems to have a lot of problems with a lot of what we do.)
For the calender, I used 30 boxes because it was the easiest for me to understand and be able to work with. It was actually super simple and I like that I can access it from anywhere. A calender at home hanging on my wall really does me no good when I'm never home. (Seriously, mine is still on October because I have no time to update it, ha ha) So the fact that this one is so simple means I can spend less time trying to figure out how to work it, and more time actually doing something with it! Which is always great.. right?!
Last but not least, I used Remeber the Milk for my to do list, because I've used it before on another exercise and again, the cute cow caught my attention and screamed for me to use it again. ;) I like the ease of access with this one too; being able to see my list from my phone in WalMart is always helpful, especially if my list for WalMart is sitting in Remember in the Milk so I didn't forget anything! I'm such a forgetful person, so I like being able to always have my lists with me no matter where I go!
Remember the Milk is great for home or school use, as well as 30 boxes. Your calender or lists can include things that are school related or home related or both! I would probably recommend Remember the Milk, just because it really is super easy! :)
For the calender, I used 30 boxes because it was the easiest for me to understand and be able to work with. It was actually super simple and I like that I can access it from anywhere. A calender at home hanging on my wall really does me no good when I'm never home. (Seriously, mine is still on October because I have no time to update it, ha ha) So the fact that this one is so simple means I can spend less time trying to figure out how to work it, and more time actually doing something with it! Which is always great.. right?!
Last but not least, I used Remeber the Milk for my to do list, because I've used it before on another exercise and again, the cute cow caught my attention and screamed for me to use it again. ;) I like the ease of access with this one too; being able to see my list from my phone in WalMart is always helpful, especially if my list for WalMart is sitting in Remember in the Milk so I didn't forget anything! I'm such a forgetful person, so I like being able to always have my lists with me no matter where I go!
Remember the Milk is great for home or school use, as well as 30 boxes. Your calender or lists can include things that are school related or home related or both! I would probably recommend Remember the Milk, just because it really is super easy! :)
Thing 15
I have always heard negative things about wikis and that we shouldn't use them in class, so I was very interested to find out the educational uses for wikis and that they don't seem to have such a negative connotation anymore!
I had a lot of trouble with the apsu sandbox. I could not figure out how to work it or where to go to edit anything. :(
Wikis would be great in the classroom because any one can edit anything, and you can keep track of who edits what. This is great because you can make a lesson out of it. For example, if you were teaching a history lesson, you could write a story about a historical figure or event, but make all the information about it completely wrong and untrue. You could then have your students read the story, and have to change one thing they read that they saw as wrong. It's great because then you ccan see who has been paying attention and who knows what is right or wrong, as well as knowing who might need more help.
I had a lot of trouble with the apsu sandbox. I could not figure out how to work it or where to go to edit anything. :(
Wikis would be great in the classroom because any one can edit anything, and you can keep track of who edits what. This is great because you can make a lesson out of it. For example, if you were teaching a history lesson, you could write a story about a historical figure or event, but make all the information about it completely wrong and untrue. You could then have your students read the story, and have to change one thing they read that they saw as wrong. It's great because then you ccan see who has been paying attention and who knows what is right or wrong, as well as knowing who might need more help.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Thing 14
I chose Gliffy & Bubbl.us for my flowchart & mindmap because the names really caught my eye.
I found Gliffy to be a little more confusing at first, but I think the flowcharts are great worksheets for students to read along with and what not. I also thought the organizational charts were great and are such great resources for kids to follow along with and stay organzied! Much easier than trying to do those things in Word! :) The Venn Diagrams were really great because when I was in school I always had teachers who told me to just think of the similarities and differences, which was hard without a visual. These gave the visual to the kids who might need it. I loved all of the different options in Gliffy, especially the floor plan one which might have really helped when we did the floor plans of our classrooms for this class! :)
I also chose Bubbl.us for my mindmap which I think was a great tool for kids to just be able to brainstorm. I have a paper due soon that I actually used the mind map for to get my thoughts together and organzied before trying to put them into a paper. I think it'd be great for kids to just brainstorm their ideas so they can start to focus on what's important when they are writing papers. I liked being able to move the bubbles all around, which would be great so kids can see which order their paragraphs should go in & what not.
I found Gliffy to be a little more confusing at first, but I think the flowcharts are great worksheets for students to read along with and what not. I also thought the organizational charts were great and are such great resources for kids to follow along with and stay organzied! Much easier than trying to do those things in Word! :) The Venn Diagrams were really great because when I was in school I always had teachers who told me to just think of the similarities and differences, which was hard without a visual. These gave the visual to the kids who might need it. I loved all of the different options in Gliffy, especially the floor plan one which might have really helped when we did the floor plans of our classrooms for this class! :)
I also chose Bubbl.us for my mindmap which I think was a great tool for kids to just be able to brainstorm. I have a paper due soon that I actually used the mind map for to get my thoughts together and organzied before trying to put them into a paper. I think it'd be great for kids to just brainstorm their ideas so they can start to focus on what's important when they are writing papers. I liked being able to move the bubbles all around, which would be great so kids can see which order their paragraphs should go in & what not.
Thing 13
So, I have never even heard of Zoho until now, but it seems like such a great resource! I really love the idea of being able to save my work in one place & knowing it will work on any computer. That is one thing I am always worried about; if I have a different version of PowerPoint will my presentation still work on this other computer?! So knowing that it will work on any with Zoho is an awesome feeling & such a relief.
I liked that the Zoho Writer was a lot like Word. Word is pretty much my favorite thing on my computer because it's one of the few I feel as though I know almost everything about, so knowing that I could get right on Zoho writer and know I was doing was a good feeling.
Google Docs was pretty interesting as well. Again, I can't believe how much Google actually does now! I went straight to the drawing section of it because for some reason I always think I'm an artist (I'm no where near it, honestly, and especially not on a computer ha ha.)
My Creation :) (I couldn't figure out how to acually put the picture here, so I linked it.
I think Google Docs would be a great tool for kids to make presentations or tables for math and things like that. I know some computers don't have microsoft office, especially if they have to do it at home and their parents haven't bought it or something. But this would be a great way for kids to still be able to make their presentation.
I'm not sure which one I found easier. Once I got to Zoho Writer it was really simple, but I had a lot of trouble actually finding the link for it. But then I had no trouble getting to the documents part of Google, but I had some trouble figuring out some of the options in the drawing part and stuff. So I guess there is good and bad to both of them, just like everything else. :)
I liked that the Zoho Writer was a lot like Word. Word is pretty much my favorite thing on my computer because it's one of the few I feel as though I know almost everything about, so knowing that I could get right on Zoho writer and know I was doing was a good feeling.
Google Docs was pretty interesting as well. Again, I can't believe how much Google actually does now! I went straight to the drawing section of it because for some reason I always think I'm an artist (I'm no where near it, honestly, and especially not on a computer ha ha.)
My Creation :) (I couldn't figure out how to acually put the picture here, so I linked it.
I think Google Docs would be a great tool for kids to make presentations or tables for math and things like that. I know some computers don't have microsoft office, especially if they have to do it at home and their parents haven't bought it or something. But this would be a great way for kids to still be able to make their presentation.
I'm not sure which one I found easier. Once I got to Zoho Writer it was really simple, but I had a lot of trouble actually finding the link for it. But then I had no trouble getting to the documents part of Google, but I had some trouble figuring out some of the options in the drawing part and stuff. So I guess there is good and bad to both of them, just like everything else. :)
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