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I liked learning about the videos and just learning about different sources for to use for future classrooms. This program has made the use of technology easier to understand. I thought I knew more about this information, but I have come to find out I did not know nearly as much as I learned. Make the 23 Things a little less daughnting. Typically things get put off until the end of the term, if this was assigned in smaller chunks it might be easier. Form what I have learned I will probably use more technology in the classroom, and maybe even have a blog for a class project. Just taking the time to read new information about teaching and web 2.0 information.

Thing 23!

As a teacher knowing about creative commons help us be able to use different tools with teaching. Creative commons help us as teachers use things found on the internet in the classroom. We can use pictures to help represent new and different ideas that may have not been thought as before. Before this class I thought everything I got from the internet had to be cited and I had to check all kinds of things just to be able to use certain images or information. Creative Commons can be taught to the younger students so they know what they can and cannot use in projects.

Thing 22

My binders are called Books, Math, and Education. LiveBinders can help with group assignments. If I have an assignment for my students. LiveBinders can help keep track of sources. The binder I chose is helping me keep up with possible sites to purchase cheap textbooks for my classes.

Books

Thing 21

Make your own slideshow with music at Animoto.

I really enjoyed this. I can make a video about anything. It could be a cool end of the year project for the students for the parents. This video has pictures from when I had my son and the times I got to see him with his adoptive family.

Thing 20

 

I like the fact that YouTube has free vidoes and that as teachers we can access them and use them at will. What I really dislike is the fact that when you search for something there are no filters to help lower the number of results. The reason I chose the video I did is because it is a fun song to play at the begining of the year for math or during a math test. Adding the information about teachertube can help with finding videos for class.You can help find intructional videos over how to write a paper or other helpful things. 

Thing 19

I am a member of a few online communities now. I am a member of Facebook, TeacherPop, Pinterest, and Google. I like Facebook a lot since I can keep up with my friends who are away at college and do not live near me. I like TeacherPop, too. What was interesting about TeacherPop was that it is just for teachers of the College of Education Department here at Austin Peay. I plan on using TeacherPop to help with collaborating on future projects. What I absolutely love about Pinterest is that it gives so many ideas for future classroom projects and also gift ideas. Most of the things come form blogs!

Thing 18

Facebook  this is a link to my Facebook page.It is important for educators to use social networking so that we can share sites and information and bounce ideas off of one another. These sites can help people connect and learn what people are doing all over the world and maybe be able to Incorporate two classes from cross country. I like Facebook because I understand how to use it because I use it a lot. I still have yet to give into the fad of Twitter.
A school can use this to make sure the teachers are being professional on every level.

Thing 17

Delicious is an amazing tool. It can be a great search engine for e a research topic in school. The things someone tags can be accessed from anywhere which can help make research and keeping track of the online sources a lot easier.Teachers can use these bookmarks to share with other teachers. They can also spread news around that may be important for us to know about as teachers.

Thing 16

The start page I chose was iGoogle. I chose this because I have a Google email account and have this blog through it, so it would just make it easier to manage. I plan on making it my permanent homepage. An online calender is a great tool. It is easier to carry than an actual planner. It can be accessed from any computer or cell phone. The to do list is helpful, but it is the same thing pretty much as the calender...It is just one more site to have to remember. Of all the tools I liked the iGoogle the best because it has a calender that works as a to do list, it is a home page and connects you to your email.

Thing 15

I can use a wiki to show case the students art work that they do on the computer. What is interesting about wiki is that people can change and edit parts of actual work spaces they are a part of. The only down side is if people post facts there is no telling from just the site if the information is correct or not. Wiki is a great jumping off point for a paper. I find it odd how so many teachers have said never use a wiki site and now schools use them. I think having the children experiment with putting their own artwork on the sites and letting their parents have access so that the children can modify the side whenever they want. It can be a fun class activity for the year!

Thing 14

For this thing we were supposed to look at mind maps and flow charts. I used Mind Meister. I loved it I made a to do list of what I have left for the remainder of my classes it makes it a lot easier to keep up with then a piece of paper. I can access this document from any computer with Internet access. The flow chart I chose was Flowchart.com. Of the two I prefer Mind Meister, though there is a subscription to use it. The Mind Meister can help with paper, when a student needs to make a concept web with the topic sentence or main idea in the center and possible paragraphs all around.

Thing 13

Zoho Writer is an amazing tool. It is a lot like word, only you documents can be accessed from any computer that you can log into Zoho. Google Doc is also just like Word. The image above is a test document I made in Google Doc. Of the two I prefer Google, because it links with your email and can make emailing the document to someone else easier then having to go through exporting the document and then attaching the document to an email. Using Google Docs the student could write papers and have other students pull it up and proof read it for the writers. It makes having students work on the dame project easier if they have a group email with Google set up.

Thing 12

I used Google Calender. I like it because if a time gets changed I can easliy move the slot around. I can use this in teaching by marking field trips, special days, and times for parent teacher conerneces. I can also upload a picture of the calender to my website, or the schools with important dates regarding the school. The second Google I used was Google Translator. It can be fun for each week the students learn a new way to say hello in a differnet language.

Thing 11

I think Google Blog Search is the easiest to use, where all you have to do is type keywords to find a blog with that topic. Topix was the hardest to use. I found feeds about do it yourself crafts and meals. I found some weird feeds about things about politics, which for me is weird because I try to stay out of that area. I found that just looking on Pintrest can help find cool feeds and other places I may want to keep track of.

Thing 10

What I like about RSS is that it brings the new articles and news from my favorite blogs and news sites to me and I can just look through and see what catches my eye. This can be extremely helpful when teaching because I can just subscribe to sites that have new teaching strategies and new ideas in teaching and technology. This could be used in the schools for new information on if something might happen with zoning or any other important news about the county or school district.

Thing 9

For this thing I had to make some logos. I found some real awesome things. First I found this World's Greatest Certificate site. I made this one for the first day of class and for students when they do exceptional jobs. The second thing I made was a logo off of the Happy Face Generator Make logo button and it took me to another site to make the logos. Off of this site I made a logo of my name, Ms. Barlow, but the text is in sign language. How cool would it be to make every student's name in sign language for their desks. That way they can learn how to sign their name.

Thing 8

I wrote WELCOME to put on the overhead on orientation and on the first day of class. My mash up would not save nor upload. But I can use these types of tools to make the class fun and more welcoming. With share online photos, I think they need to be OK for all ages. If they are not make sure they are in a secure site, but even then they can still be accessed. So my rule of thumb, if i can not show it to my parents or show it to another teacher, do not upload it!

Thing 7

Finding the image I liked was relatively easy. At the bottom of the page was a list of words for searching. I chose flowers because they are pretty and I enjoy looking at them. The picture I found was by R_A_L.
 

Thing 6

I picked Hulu.com to talk about. Hulu is like YouTube, only, nothing on their site is from users. Everything is free, but certain things are only there for a short time. It is a good place to find movies or shows about a topic, maybe as a teacher you catch on TV and want to show it to your  class. One useful feature the site had was that it had where you can search movies by genre, or just search the whole site using the search bar. I like that it lets you watch shows you may have missed on TV, but I do not like that Hulu only keeps things a certain amount of time. I think they should have a area for teachers to go where there are educational videos and shows that are always available.

Thing 5

School 2.0 to me means using technology to teach rather than just pencil and paper. It means having the students make presentations using PowerPoint and the computer, and show casing their creations to the class as a whole. It means using their knowledge about how technology works to help the class. School 2.0 means using the new technology from doc cams to iPads and anything else new that comes out. As teachers we need to know how to use these instruments to help the children realize their full potential and keep them excited about class and wanting to come to school.
Schools in the future may not have a class that is just in their one state. A teacher one day may be able to help teach overseas without going overseas. Kids who are sick, whether just a cold or are in the hospital for any reason do not have to miss a class, the teacher can record their classes and post them on their website. This means that no child really will be left behind, because a teacher could use a Skype or oOvoo as a way to help tutor a child. It means so much for the future of teaching!
I love the thought of using new technologies in a classroom, like doc cams and iPads together to compare two different methods of working a problem. It's exciting for me.

Thing 4

   Commenting on other people's posts and blogs is very important. It is important because it helps create a sense of community and interaction. It does this by the simple fact that two or more people are communication, causing the interaction, these people are also bonding over a mutual interest and forming a connection. Two other important things about commenting, it helps build the blogger's self esteem to see that people are reading and interested in what they are writing about. It also can help the blogger break out of their comfort zones, if a person leaves a comment about something new that the blogger never even would have thought of. Like a second way to solve a problem.

   The 5 blogs I commented on from our group were Webb's 23 Things, Ashmiller's 23 Things, A new educator's 23 Things, Andrea's Thoughts on 23 Things, and Moore to Learn.

On Webb's 23 Things I wrote about how I like the thought of having kids write down what they felt about the class, on paper, and her reflections, but it would be better if the students were they ones actually writing on the blog. I also mentioned to make sure no names are given. IT might even bee cool to give each child a nickname they can pick as their blogger name.

The second blog I commented on was Ashmiller's 23 Things. I agreed how the blog was pretty easy to make and how our avatars do reflect ourselves a little in.

A new educator's 23 Things was my third blog to comment on. On their's I said how I loved the thought of incorporating the blog into the class like that, but gave a way to make sure the whole class could be able to work on it. A way to get the student's who do not have internet access able to work on the blog by letting them work on the blog during the day, when they have finished their work. .

Andrea's Thoughts on 23 Things was number four comment. She mostly talked about how blogs can help people. I think students would be more into the blog if they were the authors and could see there work coming alive.

The last blog from our group I commented on was Moore to Learn. I said how I wished my name allowed me to be more creative when picking a name, and also how my avatar, much like hers, kinda reflects how I hope to look when I start teaching.

The two outside blogs I commented on were The Twice Remembered Cottage at twicerememebered.blogspot.com. There I commented on one of her crafts she made that I think I might make for my sister for Christmas. It was a magnetic scrabble board. The other blog I commented on was The Oak Fin: Little Scientist. It was about how to use baking soda, vinegar and food coloring to do a science experiment. I thought it was just too cool and want to do that with my little cousins one day.

Thing 3

One way I can use a blog as a teacher is for students to start one and write about problems they face in school everyday. I would not grade it so much as use it to better the school. You can also use a blog to help spread information about the school. The students in my class could start a news blog and every day post something new about the school, weather, community, or project.

Thing #2

I went with my first initial and then my last name and the title of what our blog is supposed to be about. I chose this, because the C. Barlow helps you know and be able to grade what I am supposed to be graded on.Then I chose the 23 Things to let you know that this is the blog that is needing to be looked at. It was hard creating the blog because even with the hint, I still had a hard time figuring out how to place the avatar on there. After about 30 minutes of trial and error, I finally figured it out. It was about half way in between hard and easy for me personally, the hints kinda helped. I am just not that good with blogs and things.  I barely post anything on facebook, and I do not have a twitter. My avatar reflects me by having my long, straight, brown hair, my green eyes, and what she is wearing. I love my green eyes and having long dark hair. I wear jeans a lot and I used to always be in a t-shirt, until very recently. I now have started to wear more of the types of things I will be wearing in a classroom, minus the shorts since summer is so hot and I walk to classes from my apartment. I chose to make the avatar like my real self because I don't want people to think I am something I'm not.

Thing 1

Of the 7 1/2 Habits online tutorial, the easiest one for me is either habit 7 1/2: PLAY! Another easy habit for me is habit 7: Mentor/ Teach others, because for the past 4 years I have been tutoring kids in elementary school and middle school math. Though 7 1/2 is probably the easiest, because I can easily get side tracked and forget to do something. The hardest for me is either habit 1: setting a goal, or habit 2: accept responsibility for your own learning. I am a very bad procrastinator. Its not good and I try to get better and have succeed a little but it is still a challenge. I will set a deadline and when it comes to the deadline I just push it back and have barely done something. I am trying even harder to fix it, but it is a process.