Is it the End or Only the Beginning?

My favorite discovery exercises was either Thing 9 or Thing 21 because I love taking pictures, and these things let me modify my pictures to something different. I really liked thing 9 because I found out how to do online scrapbooks, which I personally think is awesome! This program has affected my lifelong goals because now I have a ton of new material to "put into my bag of tricks" that will help me keep my students entertained. The things I will take away from this program is all the new material that that I have that I can use in my classroom.
I really did not like the amount of time that we had to complete the project, I think I would have gotten way more out of this if I had more time to explore each site instead of feeling rushed.

Thing 23

23 things was based off of a program called 43 things. According to  Learning 2.0 the program was cut down so the participants would not get so stressed, because the program was supposed to be completed in 8 1/2 weeks. I think that I will use creative commons in my classroom to teach my students about plagiarizing. Plagiarizing has became a huge problem in school, sometimes we plagiarize without really thinking about it (like using pictures, or forgetting to give credit to someone). Creative Commons is a great way to find free and LEGAL material to use in classrooms and for students to use in their projects!

Thing 22

The titles of my binders are: Education, History websites, and lesson plans. I liked livebinders for me to use to keep websites together, but as far as letting students use it...I don't know how that would work. I guess every student could make an account and have a binder for each of their subject areas to keep everything organized. It would be pretty cool for the student's to save the websites they were looking at on there so they don't have to waste time trying to find them the next day, or week. This is my history binder, it has some of my favorite history sites that I will probably end up using in my future classroom.

Thing 21

I am in LOVE with Animoto! I don't know why I didn't know about this site before, but I'm glad I found out about it now! I am going to have to upgrade my account to make longer videos! There is so many different types of videos you can make! This would be great for a classroom if you were a science teacher and wanted to show step by step pictures of an experiment...thats the first thing that came to mind. As a history teacher I am not 100% sure how I can use it, but I'm going to figure out a way so both me and my future students can play with it!

Make your own photo slideshow at Animoto.

Thing 20

I love YouTube! I think everyone uses YouTube multiple times a week (or at least everyone I know does!). When I was observing a 9th grade classroom the teacher showed me a YouTube channel made by History teachers and I fell in love! The video I chose to upload is actually from the YouTube channel that she showed me. The videos that they uploaded are parodies of songs that incorporate historical material to teach children while they are having fun! The songs are really cute and the information is age appropriate for the age groups I want to teach.

Thing 19

At this current moment in time I am not a member of any online communities. But I plan to join them in the future, when I can become more involved. I really like classroom 2.0 and I am waiting to be accepted into it. Tasty kitchen is another community that I would love to get involved with, since I love to cook! Classroom 2.0 has tons of information that will help me in the future to be a better teacher!

Thing 18

Here is the link to my Facebook page. I think that it is extremely important for teachers to be aware to what is happening with technology around them. Today we live in a world where technology is growing fast, and it does not look like it is going to slow down any time soon. With everything changing as fast as it is, educators need to keep up with this demand to ensure that we are doing everything possible to connect with our students. I personally love Facebook (I'm addicted, I'll admit it!), I think that is an awesome tool to use along with other things. I don't know how I would use it with students, but to keep up with teachers and have a group set up to where you can share ideas would be amazing!