Is it over, or only the begining?

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!

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.

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.

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. 

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

Things # 17 - Tagging and social bookmarking with Delicious

Okay, let us see. Tagging and social bookmarking can be used for many things. It can be used recreational, personal, and most importantly, in the classroom. I created an account with Delicious and searched the tags "educational" and "technology". I good see the comments and tags that people have added. One tag was Web 2.0 ;-). Of course this could be used in the classroom. This is perfect when researching specific content!

Thing #16 - Get Organized with Web 2.0 Tools

I'm sure as you all can tell. I am a big fan or organization. Anything that can help me get organized, I am definitely a fan of. I was asked to check out a customized start page and I tried one on iGoogle. I love this feature! I can make it look cute and girly as well as put anything I am interested in right at my finger tips.

I also enjoyed trying out the online calenders, and the to-do lists. Although they look nice to use, I am not a fan. Maybe if I was not a communiting college student, I could find more use of them. I would recommend them be used for people who work on the same computer often or on an office computer strictly for work. I will just stick with my pencil and paper though, for now. Still, these are great tools for people of interest. They are definitely worth a look into.

Thing #15 - What in the world is a Wiki?

I am still in awe over all of the resources that are available that I had absolutely no idea about. Today I explored Wikis. I knew of Wikipedia and had used it for information for as long as I can remember. I played around with the APSU sandbox and I came to a brilliant idea on how Wiki could be used in the classroom. I could create a Wiki for my classrooms! I would have students log on and post study techniques for different concepts that we learn in class. This way, if a student is stuck on a certain concept, they could log onto the Wiki and see the way different students have figured the answers. Wrong answers could be corrected with right answers, and hopefully not vise versa. This is definitely an option with the expansion of Web 2.0!

Thing #14 - Go With the Flow

I have taken a break on posting for a while, but I am now back at it again. Today, I am looking at flowcharts and mind maps. I have been exploring the Gliffy flowchart and the Bubble.us mind maps. Gliffy seems like a great resource for people that are fond of flow charts. I am not one of those people. I did really enjoy the Bubble.us mind map though. This could definitely be a great resource for an outline for a paper. I plan on using this more my final essay that I have in my World Literature Class.