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! 

Thing 17

The Delicious site is VERY useful. I personally love the idea, the site, and I will be using it in my future classroom. With Delicious you can make different tags and organize the sites that you want to have in one category all together. By having multiple tags this saves a lot of time when you are looking for a particular site for a particular section/chapter that you are teaching.

Thing 16

For Thing 16 I decided to do the iGoogle start page with the theme Spring Scape because it was cute. On my start page I have the news, weather, humor comics, and entertainment news selected. I really like the way that everything is set up for iGoogle, but I don't think I will use it very much. At the top of the page it says that iGoogle will not be available after November 1, 2013 therefore I don't want to get attached to this program only to have to give it up after a few months.

Thing 15

Editing the apsu23thingssandbox wasn't that difficult. I uploaded my thing 9 to the sandbox because that is my favorite blog I have done so far :) Wiki is a very interesting concept. Whenever you need to look up something for fun that is usually the first site to click on to get fast information. With that being said it has also been drilled into my head to never use Wiki on a educational work, because of the fact it is not credited and anyone can edit it. Learning that schools now use Wiki is very interesting to me. Since I have now learned this new information I can see both the benefits and downsides to using Wiki in the classroom setting. Since anyone can edit Wiki I have always been hesitant to use this as a reliable source of information, there is so many mistakes that I have seen in Wiki over the years that I have googled things. Editing Wiki can be a good thing though, since sometimes websites only update once a year, the information gets out of date. I think if the teacher properly instructs the students and monitors their students then using Wiki in the classroom for projects should not be an issue.