Summarization

This class was very informative and I learned many things that I did not know about. It gave me so many ideas to do with my classes since I teach Information Communication and Technology classes. Also, there is so much information that I can use as a reference to my materials for my classroom. I love trying new things and I want them to learn how to back up there files on the internet as well as pictures and images. I don't know what all is blocked but I hope it will allow me to do some of these things. Besides I think they will have fun with it. I know more about what the internet offers more than my sons do now. This class took me more than 24 hours but it was well worth it. I enjoyed it and look forward to applying it in my classroom.

Thing #23

I loved the fair(y) use video from YouTube. I always get so confused about copyright laws. I know I rely on our librarian for some questions I have about things. I am glad that Creative Commons is a site that can help us with what we can use for our classroom. I know that this course we are taking has a creative commons license. Things have been borrowed and duplicated with permission, under a Creative Commons License on the web page. I looked at all the sites. The comic book cc tool was good but really long which led me to get a little confused. I noticed that my oldest son has a Creative Commons bookmark on his toolbar to type in information when he needs to. I am relieved that we have this site to help us and lessen the burden.

Thing #22

I looked at all the podcast directories and the educational podcast was the easiest one for me to find the information I was looking for. Some of the other podcast directories I would have to be very careful with middle schoolers if they were on the podcast directory page. I looked at the podcast that had to do with career education and I saw alot of helpful information that my students will be able to use or discover. I listened to the business side of music podcast. It goes through 12 steps in helping musicians make it in the music business. Since our sons are in a band, I thought it would be interesting and helpful. I signed up this site to my google reader. I intend to share it with him. I dont know if I will try to do a podcast with my students. I do intend to share this information with my son to see if he would be interested in doing a podcast. I intend to continue looking at this directory to find helpful information that they can use for their research. I really liked that they had it broken down for middle school, high school and elementary.

Thing#21

This was really easy to use. I had pictures on flickr and it downloaded those for me and sent it to my blog. It was a piece of cake.
This is when my kids were young and now they are in college. Time sure flies and they grow up fast.

Thing #20

I don't know if I should show you this but this is a video my son made for a science class in college. He received an A on the project. I have been trying to have my students learn garage band and imovies to help create projects and this is a prime example. I love YouTube. There was a short clip from the movie Pay it Forward that I wanted to use for my class to introduce a topic of helping others. I couldn't show it because YouTube is blocked. I found YouTube to be user friendly and easy to navigate. The google YouTube site could have downloadable videos but since they bought out YouTube, I don't think they can be downloaded.

Thing #19

View my page on 23 Thingsters


I am not a member of any online community. I didnt know that you could make your own ning. I know my husband is on a site similar that involves all basketball coaches in the state of Texas. They share information, knowledge and tips. It can be pretty addicting though. I like playlist.com. I think I would like having a playlist that I could use at school. I liked the sites and I think it is really interesting that it is so easy to share your information, music, video and pictures. My husband and I like movies and I would join flixter.

Thing #18

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1329075010

Facebook is the account that I chose to register on. My students ask me all the time if I have a my space account and I say no. I logged on to myspace several years ago to check up on my own kids sites. MySpace is really good if you have a band and want people to listen to your music, which my sons have a band. I know their are a few bands or people who got signed to a contract because of MySpace. There is also a 17 year old girl that began really wealthy because she designed a website to decorate myspace accounts. Also, every celebrity or music group has a MySpace page. It has more flexibility and creativity but also is not as private. I set up a facebook account and I had the hardest time locating friends. It is more difficult to find people on facebook than myspace. I think the MySpace is for the younger crowd and the facebook is probably for older. It used to be only for college students. I think that it is important that educators know how social networking works and it helps you to understand what the students are used to and like to do. I know that colleges talk to incoming Freshman about being careful what you put on your facebook and myspace page. They told them that employers are looking at their pages to find out what that person is really like. I also have a teacher friend that has a myspace account so that his students can contact him. I think both sites had useful features and I am not sure which I liked best. I dont know if I see a library or school application for any of these sites but they use technology and learn how to use technology by using these sites.

Thing #17

I thing this tool is great and will really help me in my research projects at school. It will allow me to use this with my students so they will be able to use this in high school and college. I will be able to have access to my bookmark from anywhere. I think del.icio.us was more simple to use than furl and ma.gnolia. Libraries will be able to use this along with netrekker. They are responsible for information on each of the classes research so I could see that it would be real helpful to them, not only to find information but to organize it.

Thing#16

I chose to customize an i-google page. We have a yahoo startup page but I dont remember it having this many options. I had a blast putting on my home page somethings that I wanted. I have been addicted to sudoku lately and I could even put that on it.
It was really easy to add and navigate. I also created an online calendar. I looked at the google and yahoo calendars. The google calendar was just as easy as the yahoo. I thought I would use the yahoo because google is blocked on our campus. The online calendar could help me with reminders on my work schedule , appointments and practices. I tried ta da list and Jott. I wanted to see the difference. Ta da list is so easy and simple. Jott incorporates alot of different features and it is not to just make a list. It converts your voice into emails, text messages and so on. Wow! I have already made my husband a honey dew list. I liked writing things down and checking off when I get finished.

I will be using the calendar because I have to always make out a workout schedule for my practices. I can see the calendar being useful to a librarian and the technology lab because of scheduling of classes. I also like to make list and check things off. I seem to be more organized and get more thinks accomplished when I have a check off list. The pdfconverter would also come in handy because there are so many times when we receive or send documents and they cant be read because we use a mac.

Thing #15

The wiki was quite a bit easier than I had anticipated. I wrote about blogging on the 23 things wiki site. It was very easy to add, even copy and paste. The video explained it so simply and now I know what they are talking about. I set up a pretend wiki and it pertains to our family reunion. Since we have about 50 people coming, I thought it would be a good way to communicate even though I am only pretending. My family is pretty technically challenged. I could see where you might use a wiki to collaborate on projects and assignments. You could also use a wiki for a committee. I am on a committee in my church and I can see using it so we wouldn't have to meet as often. We could share and formulate documents at home with everybody contributing with no inhibitions. Maybe it could also be used for a committee in school.

http://mobleyreunion.wikispaces.com/

thing#14

The mind map I chose was bubbl.us and the flow chart was flowchart.com. The mind map was so simple to use. I decided to share a simple illustration using a mind map. It is really alot like inspiration. There are different mind maps we use with our students and this could make it different by using on of these sites. The flow chart could be used in writing your outline or reporting on information or content that was read. I thought both sites were very easy to use, even though bubbl.us didn't give much direction.