I made it through...YAY!!!

I made it through all the 23 things!!! Woohoo!! Even though, at first it does seem like a lot of work in the beginning, once you get started on them...it's a breeze.

Each of the 23 things was a useful resource..some things I already knew, but there were quite a bit of ideas that were totally new to me! I loved the fact that I was able to learn new things/ideas, especially web tools that I can use in my classroom in the future!!

Thanks for all the helpful tips. It was awesome to learn the different features of technology that could be incorporated into a classroom. I truly appreciated the "23 Things" assignment.

Thing 23...Woohooo!!!!

The Creative Commons fair(y) tale video was cute and a clever idea of a video to help with the understanding of copyrighting and etc. As a teacher, it's going to be important to teach the students that taking and copying other people's work and trying to pass it off as their own without proper permission is not right. A student needs to be able to think/create their own ideas instead of trying to copy/take other's work. Whenever the time comes for me to have my own classroom this will be an important topic to be taught and learned.

Thing 22..Podcast Galore...

Wow!! Who would have imagined that there were so many podcasts that one could subscribe too! It was interesting to navigate through different ones. I sampled ones that pertained to education and then ones that had to do with Music. It was pretty easy to navigate through them. I really enjoyed the music ones. I could totally add different podcasts into my Ipod if I wanted too. I find it neat and perhaps resourceful to use in my classroom someday.

Thing 21...Animoto

I really liked being able to make my own videos!! This was a totally awesome and fun web tool. I found it cool that i could upload whatever pictures, music and create them into videos. This website, Animoto could be used in different ways. I could make small videos to use for the classroom for lectures, or too make a classroom photo album and use in the classroom podcast/blog and etc. There are many ideas that you could use this Animoto website for. Just another neat way of using technology in the classroom.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

thing 20...YouTube videos

Well, hmm...it was interesting to say the least when it came to exploring Youtube! There were loads and loads of videos. Silly videos to crazy videos. haha. However, I was able to find loads of educational videos that could come in handy in a classroom or to resource from. I found it neat to be able to find these educational videos. However, I did not like all the "crazy" videos that are in that website. It looks like a website that anyone could just post whatever they want and share with others. I chose this specific video, because I liked the way it went through the alphabet and helped with letter recognition and sounds. It was neat.

thing 19

Well, it was nice to explore other social networks besides the 2 common ones...Myspace & Facebook. The other social networks were interesting and mostly, because they were solely based on education! It was nice to see another realm of social networks that I could explore and read others ideas on education topics! I also became a member of the social network TeacherPop and the Classroom 2.0 Ning. I hope to be able to continue reading up on ideas that maybe I could use someday in my classroom.

1. Classroom 2.0 Ning--- http://www.classroom20.com/
2. TeacherPop--- http://teacherpop.ning.com/

Thing 18..Social Networking

http://www.facebook.com/people/Nessa-Pineda/100001242045900?ref=search

The main reason that educators find it important to know how to wander around the social networking is so they can see what others are up too. I mean what else is the purpose besides reading up and viewing up on their lives that they post on their MySpace and Facebooks. Now, it’s like they tell us…don’t be posting things that you wouldn’t want the world to see or read!! Hehehe. I personally have a MySpace and a Facebook, but I sure don’t have them public viewed either…I don’t want all my life out in the open…for anyone to see—only my friends. Hmm…I don’t know if I would use these either of these websites in a classroom. From what I can remember both websites were banned on school computers, so that would be a barrier to cross right?! So, from my opinion, I don’t think that I would use the websites in my classroom.