One Final Thing

Yea, finally! I've really enjoyed my journey through the 23 things. I've come upon some very useful tools to use as a teacher. Some will undoubtly get used more than others. My favs were the mashups and bling pics with your name (what were those called again?). Some I had heard about for a while but to afraid to try: twitter & flickr. Not so bad. Twitter is easier with a smart phone. Maybe I'll use flickr again, at least I know how now. I've enjoyed this time of discovery.

Thing #23

http://schoollibrarylearning2.csla.net/2007/02/23-things_27.html

This is a link to another 23 things blog I found. I know what Dr. Wall means about having a Creative Commons license. I simply googled '23 things' and had more than a page pop up of various blogs done over the last year. Do we really want someone using what we create or is it OK? I seems a little like stealing, almost. We have that choice when it comes to our creativity. As a teacher, I will want to inevitably share what I know with other teachers to help them. If I know something I've created is really special, like REALLY special, I will protect it, whether some (Creative Commons) or all of it (Copyright).

Thing #22

special education

I just finished my live binders activity. A little late and a dollar short, I think. Any who, my first was one on special education and technology. Way easier than I thought it would be initially! The site allows you to choose whether or not you want it public and if you choose public, it does a google search for you and places the searched items in your  binder. You simply have to type in your search terms. Very nifty! I also created an elementary lesson plan binder and one on problem based learning. I can definitely see myself using this as a teacher. It's very useful for organizing websites and resources into useful web binder. Love it!

Thing #21

My Animoto Video

I just made a video using Animoto. Soo cool!! It's very easy too! Very impressed!! :) I had allot of fun playing with Animoto. I linked it to my flickr account and used my account photos to make my video. I really liked that it contained a menu of popular songs and backgrounds to choose from. That took me the most time. Just trying to decide what I wanted! ;) I can see allot of use for Animoto inside the classroom, especially if you want to create something special for your students with class videos and pics included.

Thing #20

This video is called "Teddy & Mrs. Thompson". It's a short film about 12 minutes in length but contains a very strong message. It almost made me cry! I'll only tell you that it has strong educational implications with student/teacher relationships. Some parts are hard to understand but the video as a whole was very moving. I really like YouTube. My 10 year old sons loves to watch funny cartoon videos allot. I do have to keep a watchful eye because there are a few that contain some vulgar words. I can envision allot of educational uses for YouTube. If YouTube were applied to the library website, students could view several, if not many, reviews and suggestions about educational classroom materials, books, articles, etc.