Finally! I have reached the end of my 23 things journey. I feel as though this was an excellent activity. I was learning, but having fun at the same time. My favorite exercise, by far, was Thing #22. I have a knack for organization, and this is just perfect. I have used bookmarks, but those can easily get messy. Plus, I never actually look back on those. I can save all the resources that I obtain throughout my college career to a neatly prioritized online binder.
Over all, I took away so much of from this activity. There is not one thing that I would change to make it any better than it already is. I have discovered resources that I had no idea were available to me that I will be able to use in my future career. I will definitely be keeping up with some of my tagged RSS feeds so I am able to keep up with the journey of Web 2.0. I cannot wait to use some of these tools for the future in my classroom!
Jessica Baggett
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Things #23 - Creative Commons
The idea of copyright is extremely important in not only the world of teaching, but the whole world in general. As a teacher, I could possibly be using lesson plans or ideas from other teachers. It is very important that I give credit to the people that I used information from. It was their idea, not mine, and they have the right to their ideas.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Thing #22 - Keepin' it Together: Livebinders
Wow! This one great. I have finally found a organization resource that I like. Livebinders is by far my favorite! It reminds of Diigo's concept, expect with even more organization. I'm going to use this to organize my favorite Diigo resources. I made binders titled for use their specific use (Students, Teacher, Standards). I used my "Student" binder to store all of the resources for students that I found most useful from the Diigo group 3040/5040. The same concept goes with my other two binders. I have embedded a link to my "Teacher" binder as follows:
Teacher
This could become an excellent resource for use in the classroom. I would store an entire lesson inside of a binder, and students could visit the websites in the ordered tabs to complete work and concepts.
This could become an excellent resource for use in the classroom. I would store an entire lesson inside of a binder, and students could visit the websites in the ordered tabs to complete work and concepts.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Thing #21 - Animoto
Amito is an awesome resource. I would be great for the kids to use since it is super easy! They would love it.
Thing #20 - You, Too, Can YouTube
I ultimately enjoy using YouTube for entertainment purposes. I like to watch people falling down the stairs and others making a fool of themselves as much as the next person. YouTube could be used for educational purposes as well. There is a great feature if you find a person's videos that you enjoy watching. You can add their channel to your page. You are able to access it from any computer and watch the videos that they have up loaded to their channel. Also, once you watch a video it directs you to other videos or similar interest. This would be a great feature if it were applied to the Austin Peay library website. There is also an app for iPhone that I use. I am able to let my daughter watch Elmo where ever there is WiFi or 3G ;-).
My standard involves 3rd grade mathematics, therefore I have embedded a YouTube video that is related to my standard.
My standard involves 3rd grade mathematics, therefore I have embedded a YouTube video that is related to my standard.
Thing #19 - Other Social Networks
Phew! Who knew there were so many other social networking sites out there. I researched some of the ones listed on the 23 things blog. TeacherPop is really neat! I am currently waiting for administration acceptance. I also explored last.fm and I absolutely love it. I normally use Pandora to listen to music, but I enjoy this one so much better. It can sink the songs you normally listen to onto you last.fm account with just a click of a button, using Scobble! Check these out and give them a try!
Thing #18 - Explore Social Networking
There is not much need for the exploration of Facebook and Twitter during this day in time for the people around my age. I, for one, use these social networking sites every day. I know each of these like the back of my hand. I find Facebook to be the most useful. You are easily directing to things that interest you and people that you may know. The down fall of Facebook is that the a lot of the time, a well known famous people that you follow could quite possibly not be who you think they are. On twitter, it is more than likely the person you see tweeting on your screen and it is also more simplified for less distraction. There is one thing that you must remember. It is important to know that, as a teacher candidate, it is extremely hard to block everything on your face. You must watch what you put on a social networking site because almost anyone can see the things that you put on there.
Here is a link to my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/jbaggett2?ref=tn_tnmn
Here is a link to my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/jbaggett2?ref=tn_tnmn
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