TWENTY ONE:)

My Animoto Video

 This is a video of some pictures of my boyfriend and I.This was a hard thing to do I thought. It was very time consuming, and was a little difficult to navigate through the website. However, I think this is a wonderful source to make still phtograph videos. I never knew that sites like this existed on the internet for free. I could see myself using this in a class for students to find pictures or draw pictures and scan them about a project subject and they can create their own videos. I could not figure out how to embed the video. With the youtube video in the other THING I just clicked the blogger icon and it embedded it for me. I did the same with this website but, it just linked it to my blog. I tried using the embed code, however, this did not work either. Also, there is no way to save the video to my computer to insert the video as we would a picture.

TWENTY:)

 

I liked youtube because it has all the resources for anything you need (almost). If students need to know how to do math, rules for English, set up a title page in Word, youtube has it! I chose this video because it is by Conrad Wolfram, which is a widely recognized math guru! I will be teaching math, so this was the perfect video for me. I think the related videos would be a nice touch to be added to the library. This is because when doing research, students have to search in many different places. A ten page paper can take you 15 hours just to get your content down on paper. From there you have to use appropriate formatting and citing! (I know this from experience). So, if the library used related sources links, it would cut down on researching time for students:)

I know my text looks awful, however, my video is at the top of my post and covers my color pallets :(

NINETEEN

Yes, I am a member of Teacher pop, now. Yes, I think Teacher pop is a great way for future teachers and inservice teachers to communicate in a professional setting. I have not yet had the chance to tour the Teacher pop website fully. My request is still being reviewed. -Will update when it gets accepted.
Okay! I got accepted, I chose to add the teacher pop tag to my profile and I added a profile picture of myself.. I tried to add a widget to my blog, but I couldn't figure out how to do it!

EIGHTEEN :)

Click here to view my twitter page. Which, I do not usually use. Here is the link tomy facebook.

Educators should know how social networking works because it is something that their students engage in daily. Also, it is an oppurtunity to incorporate technology into the curriculum. Educators could ask students to post about a subject on their facebook or twitter account. I love facebook. I think it is a great way to keep in touch with friends from all over the word and express how you feel or think to those you wish to share that information with. I don't like twitter as much. I don't really understand it as far as normal people being "followed." I can understand the idea of following a celebrity (if you are into that) or following a news page about a topic you are interested in. However, following everything your friends have to say is a little weird. I guess I like facebook more because you get to see pictures of far away family and such. I think twitter could be useful in a classroom. Educators could provide students with an assignment to summarize what they think about x subject in y amount of characters. This concept is similar to THE JIST; which we commonly used in my secondary schooling location. Facebook could be used in a similar way. When I think of facebook in an educational setting I think of FREEDOM WRITERS. I think facebook would be a good way for students to write in a "journal" manner.

SEVENTEEN

I can see this as a tool for teachers to help students find resources. Professors at APSU link related sources in D2L for us students to use. This could be used in the same manner. It could also be used for personal use because of it's ability to be accessed from anywhere. Teachers could also use this site to share resources with fellow teachers in their grade level, subject area, or whole school. By tagging these items with different tags it gives the researcher a brief idea of what the link contains. Such a resource could even be used state wide for teachers to collaborate their resources.

SiXTEEN

I chose to do the iGoogle homepage. I thought the sample page was cute and all the different applications to use/choose form also attracted me to this. I will not make this my homepage because I would probably never get any school work done again :) The online calendars could be useful for classroom calendars. The students could look online or at a printed copy in the room of the classroom calendar to know when tests, activities, and schedule changes will occur. I do not like the to do lists. I carry a paper planner with me. I like doing one thing on my list and erasing it out of my planner and then adding another thing. Online, it seems that I want to babble on a to do list rather than write what actually needs to get done. I like the calendar tool, as mentioned before. It could be used in the classroom or even at home. For a family with children the parents could add events like "Family Dinner" so that the children know that there is to be no social plans made for that time block. Also, if family vacations are being planned, them being on a calendar for everyone to see would provide everyone with a reminder of when they need to ask off work, or be caught up (or ahead) on school work to be able to take the time off. I would recommend the iGoogle homepage because it is so custom to YOU. Everything that you like to surf on the net is available in one place. However, I think, as said before, that this wonderful application would prevent me from doing as much school work :) I am easily distracted.

FiFTEEN:)

I thought this "thing" was rather interesting. Being able to edit others' thoughts and such was fun. I felt like a little kid, changing mom's font and size on her work newsletter:) I decided to add my post for thing Fourteen because I completed thing fourteen recently and I really enjoyed it. I deleted alot of people's pictures! hehehe:) Wiki's are rather fun. I also deleted alot of random sentences in people's paragraphs so that they do not make sense :) This goes to show why our professors are always telling us that wikipedia is not a valid resource. People can be mischievious and just TRY to delete/change/misprint information! Wiki's would be a good idea for students to collaborate about everything they learned in a course. If once a week every child had to go onto the wiki and add two things they learned that week, it could improve collaboration and assess what the children are retaining and what they are not.

FOURTEEN:)

I chose to explore the Bubbl.us and the Gliffy sites. I really like the Bubbl.us because it's great for getting ideas together for any event. Things I could use this for personally are: to do list, party organizer, organizer for family events, and organizing events to talk about at work. Educationally, Bubbl could be used for children to interact with technology while creating an organizer for: an essay, a group project, and ideas for school events. I think the students would really enjoy interacting with this website instead of drawing a circle on paper and writing in it. I also liked the Gliffy site. I really liked this site because of the floor plan application! This is amazing for personal use! Also, it would be a great application for upcoming teachers to organize how they would like to have their classroom. Students could collaborate with one another to express how they would like the classroom to be set up as well. The floorplan application on Gliffy is definitely my favorite part of thing fourteen:)

THiRTEEN

I think the Zoho writer tool is amazing! It is almost an exact replica of Microsoft Office word. People pay tons of money every year on new Microsoft Software for the up and coming desktop, laptop, ipad, and tablets. Yet, here is this online (accessible from anywhere with internet), FREE, tool! I am amazed that something like this exists.
Here is the drawing I created on Google Documents: cjkm
I like the google documents drawing app. Students could use the scribble tool to draw out math problems for each other. Tutoring sessions could be online rather than in home. Also, the documents, presentations, etc could be used for group projects. The inconvience of staying after school or making another trip to school would no longer exist. Google Docs makes it easy to share and collaborate! I personally liked Google Docs better. This had more apps then the Zoho. Zoho did not have presentations, forms, or spreadsheets. They did have the writer though. The calendar and lists are not all that helpful for me because I carry a planner for myself. But, if I was already teaching in a school I guess it would be helpful to post meetings and share materials etc. Altogether, I love these online, free applications, and I am STILL amazed that they exist... being free!