One last thing ... ... ... FINALLY :)

• What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
• My favorite discovery was definitely the animoto. The reason is because my husband is deployed right now and I was able to make a video to send to my husband! :) 

• How has this program affected your lifelong learning goals?
• I do not think that this has really effected my goals, but it may be easier to reach my goals because I now have so many new resources to use. I will use these new resources for my teacher career, as well as my journey as a student.

• Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
• Going into this program, i did not think i was going to learn anything new. I worked every day in the army with computer and different programs. I was surprised because I learned so much in this class and am glad that I was required to take this course.

• What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
• I took this course over a month and I think that four months would be a long time for this course. maybe this course could be shortened during the year as well or offered at Ft. Campbell,

• How will what you have learned influence your practice as a teacher?
• I will use technology much more, now that I have all of this knowledge. I did not know before this course how much technology would be able to help me in the classroom.

• How do you plan to keep up with new developments in web 2.0? Recommend a way that you have found to be useful.
• I would keep up with the blogs and accounts that I have made for this class.

Thing #23

We have already had an assignment about the creative commons. I would use this to explain to my students about how they can use other peoples work legally, without stealing it. The creative commons is so easy to understand and explains to people what they can and cannot do with others work. People work very hard to create different works and it was very important for children to understand that it is not okay to steel other peoples work.  As a teacher it is my responsibility to make sure that my students know who to use people work.

Thing #21

Family

This was my favorite project of the 23 things. I will use this website again. I sent a copy of this to my husband, who is deployed.

Thing #22

There three binders that I made were named the following:

-ART education - which was all about art education

-FUN PROJECTS - which is a binder all about art projects

-ART HISTORY - a binder all full of art history links

http://livebinders.com/edit?id=133649

Binders would be a great resource in the classroom. I as a teacher would be able to put all my lesson plans into a neat binder online. I plan on using lesson plans that I find online and this would be perfect to keep them neat. I can also use this website to allow parents to see what kind of websites that I may be using in my lessons.

Thing #20

I like to use Youtube. I use this mostly for finding out how to do things around the house. There are videos about anything you could even imagine. I also like that when you are done watching a video, there are a list of many videos that are related to the one I was watching.

I think that libraries should take a Que from Youtube. I think that it would be a great idea for library websites to have a list of books and articles like the one that you would be currently looking at.

Teachers would be able to use this website to look up lesson and see a video of them. Another thing teachers could use this website for is finding art projects. I am going to be an art teacher and think that this would be a great resource for finding examples of art projects.

Thing #19

I am a member of facebook, but that is about all that I am involved in because like I previously mentioned in another post, it makes it easy to keep in touch with old friends and school mates.

I enoyed exploring Bake space. I thought this was an interesting social website and took my time going through all of the pages. You can get different recipes and share your own with others. This is a great website for anyone that like to cook. I love to cook and think that I will keep up with this websites.

I think it is so interesting that there are social websites for any kind of interests. With these kinds of websites it makes it easy to find friends that have the same interests as you. This "thing" opened my eyes to the big world of social websites.

Thing #18

I had a facebook before this class and have used it ever since I have moved away from my home town. I was in the army and was traveling all over, so social websites made it easy to keep in touch with my friends. Now that I am out of the army I live in KY and am far away from my OH friends. I use facebook daily and will keep this social profile for a long time to come I am sure.

I now have a twitter account because I was required to make one in a earlier assignment. I do not really like twitter and do not think I will be using the website in the future.

Thing #17

This website can be useful in the classroom. It is very important for a teacher to keep all of their information organized. This website allows you to keep bookmarks of all sorts of pages. This website allows teachers to see what new trending websites are out and find any information that they may need. Teachers can keep social sites organized as well as other kinds of websites, as well.

As a teacher I can use this website to keep all of my resource websites together in one place. I can also use this website to put all of my websites with lesson plans on them organized as well.

Thing #16

I chose to create a Google start page. The reason that I chose a Google start page is because I am most familiar with Google and Google is my home page right now. I do not think that I will make this my homepage because I do not like to have to much clutter on my homepage. The plain Google page is what I prefer because it is nice and simple.

Online calenders can be very useful because they can keep all of a teachers dates in one place. As a teacher I will have many important dates to keep track, whether it be for grades or for tests.

The to do list are not something I would use. This is because I like to hand write my to do lists, there is something that I like about crossing things i have completed off of my list. I do not think they are too much, just not something that I would want to have.

The tool that I liked the best was the home pages. I don't think I would use them personally, but I think they are the most interesting out off everything.

Thing #15

I could use wikis when I start teaching to put together lesson plan. Using sandboxes I would be able to use information and make up documents to use in my own classroom. There is allot of good information on wiki that would be able to be used my my own classroom.

I have used wikis allot throughout my career as a student and I did not know as much I though. I learned alot about wiki throughout this "thing:.

Thing #14

Flowchart.com and Mindmeister.

I have used flow charts more than I would have liked. The army uses them all the time and my job in the army included making them to show the chain of command, phone charts, squads and platoons. They make information very neat and easy to understand. They allow people to see the flow of information.

I think the flow charts are much more neat then mind maps in my opinion. This is most likely because I am more used to and comfortable with the flow charts.

I chose these two sites because I wanted to chose a site which used flow charts and another website that used mind maps. This is because like I have stated earlier I do not have much experience with mind charts and wanted to learn a little more about them.

Thing #13

Zoho Writer allows you to use a word processor and share your creations online. You can also make documents if you do not have internet, you can make up to 25 documents offline. You can make changes to the documents and save them for future use. You can either choose to share you documents or choose not to share your documents.

Google Docs is another word processing resource, which I prefer over Zoho Writer. This is most likely because I have used it before and find it easier to navigate through. The website is easier to find, since most people have already used Google they know where to find it.

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1214uLfacPCL0KQ2raP_M4ld48Cw1UdHD1BCk9ibGYQI/edit?hl=en_US

The above link is an example of a Google docs drawing that I created.

Google docs would be great to use in a classroom because students would be able to make documents and pictures to share with their classmates. The creations can be saved and shared. This is a good way to save paper as well. If students created the documents, they could just email the documents to their classroom, instead of printing them out and giving them to their classmates. Students could give each other feed back on paper or projects as well.