Thing #24

Wow, I made it. The downloading, making an account, passwords, and signing in, I thought it would never stop. My family is amazed how much I have learned from these 23 Things of searching and learning a variety of tools that have been floating in cyber space all this time. A few favorites that come to mind is the RSS feeder, flickr, flowchart, google doc, and of course the animoto. Improving the site, I believe is to make sure we have the right software to this. The you-tube tutorial were great. I will be using these allot!!! I was impressed with many tools that will provide another avenue for the students and various information to make my teaching as best as I possible can do. Keeping up with all these tools is going to take some dedication- a goal to stay caught up on technology. I think the biggest thing to remember is when you are putting a lesson plan together, make sure technology is included.

Thing #23

Creative Commons video and article really helped me understand how copyright worked. Creating a tutorial for students was a great way to help students what they can do and cannot do with information found,created, and how to protect their own work. I found that credit was given below the intro to the 23 Things The credit was given Helene Blowers and Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website 43Things.

Thing #22

This podcast is a spiritual lesson focussed on a variety ways to open and soothe your soul. I enjoy listening to podcast. It's nice to not be interrupted with commercial, and choose your topic. I subscribe to Red Bar Radio (funny, top 5) and Crafty Pod. Great listening tool, need visual!!!


http://www.paganheartinmaine.com/PHMFeed.xml

Animoto.com

Thing #21

This was AWESOME!!! I wished I would have known this site earlier. In my questgarden, I layed out an idea for my students to create a video, google had one that I used, but this Animoto seems much easier. It was really easy, and I loved that. This will be awesome to use in the classroom and to share with family on facebook.

Thing #20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3yCod-IfjY

You tube is so much fun! One thing I don't like about it, is that some don't keep it clean. Most of the video's are funny. I do like all the How to's videos that has been a great visual to learn. Because of the leaning that we learn with the how to's It would be a great reference to put in the library website.

Thing #19

Social Networking, I joined teachers pop and put in two photos one of myself and other of my beautiful family. There were some beautiful pictures of water fall and mountains I was mesmerized by the beauty. Plus I probably needed a break. Getting down to the last few things to do before class is up. I read about blog of a third grade class creating a book with a first grade class. It was a pretty cool idea of how she was collaborating technology with book they were creating. I can't remember the name of the tool, you'll have to take a look. I also joined 43 things, i liked this. I found a girl that is interested in playing a round of golf with me. I am always looking for other girls to play with, besides playing all the time with my husband. Shh don't tell him. I liked this site, it was an incentive to create goals, and follow through. I didn't think I would like this, But as my life slows down it would be nice to share with others with same interest.

#18 Social Networks

E-mail was the first tool that brought me to play on the computer. Social networking became the reason I stayed on the computer. First, I had my space page, awesome to look up old friends from the past. I thought it got a little risky of meeting strangers. That is just not my cup of tea. However, I really like facebook. It has linked me with old friends and then keeps going. A great social networking site. I am linked with Texas friends, Misssouri friends and now Tennessee. I can tell everybody what I'm up to one time. I like that. I do not like that I check every body out and my ten minutes on computer has turned into a couple of hours. I don't see these sites being beneficial to students. I like the idea of teachers sharing blogs rather than facebook pages. Getting to know each other works on facebook, other learning tools I just don't see how that would work.
Check my facebook page out at http://www.facebook.com/s.l.gottschalk#/s.l.gottschalk?v=wall

#17 Delicous

I see this sight as going to the Baskin-n-Robbins and seeing all the flavors organized. Just like this wonderful idea of organizing chaos on your book markings. This is a great way to communicate ideas with other teachers. I aim to be organized and this a terrific tool to keep data found in files. It would definitely provide me easy access in classroom, I see students learning about it, maybe using it for references, or research papers.