Thing 23

I have my own classroom blog that I can chat and share information with my students on all summer long. I have my own class wiki that served as an awesome study group for our last test. Every child that went on the wiki got an A or a B on the test! I know how to embed a YouTube video onto my blog (and by my own estimation makes me very cool). I can create documents online and open them on any computer using Google Docs. I can also create PowerPoint Presentations online, make flow charts, and any other office type task and open them anywhere! I can find great presentations to use in class on Slideshare. I can organize all of my sites and see what my colleagues are using on del.icio.us and find a picture of anything on Flickr! I can then take those pictures and put them on my blog or any number of other things like movie posters, switching faces... I also subscribe to RSS feeds and Podcasts, which I am actually starting to get the hang of and enjoy! Most importantly I have been able to help others! I explained to a co-worker how to make a blog and she now has a great one of her own for the swim team! My little sister just went back to college and had to spend time at a classmate's house because she doesn't have PowerPoint so I introduced her to Zoho. My husband received a promotion and kept forgetting where he left documents so I showed him Google docs, and many of my students now have their own blogs!! I can teach others about Web 2.0 tools!! My digital journey is just beginning and I can't wait to see where it takes me!! Thank you 23 Things for helping me become a better teacher by allowing me to communicate with my students on their (mine now too) digital frontier!

Things 21 & 22

I made a wiki that will serve as a group study guide for a test. https://discussion-zone.wikispaces.com/ So far the students have not added too much and one of them has gone on and erased everything! I like that everyone can edit the page, but it's hard not knowing who is adding (or deleting) what. I'm hoping it will serve as a study guide for struggling students, but we'll see. I think I prefer the blog because I know who is posting and when, but the wiki is good for an informal setting.

Thing 20

I have subscribed to several podcasts on itunes, but never have time to listen. Last Friday I found a great podcast on readwritethink.org on the Hunger Games, and my students loved it!! I will definitely use them more often!

Thing 19

Our librarian used to hint to me to make a podcast with my class. We presented Native American projects and she would say, "That would make a great podcast." I've always said yes and moved on because I had no idea how to do it! I think this would be a great way to do a school/classroom news broadcast! The students would love it and they know more about technology than I do! With so many step-by-step sites out there and all of the free resources I think we would be very successful! I am definitely going to see what resources we have at school as far as microphones and what software we have already!

Thing 18

Newton's Laws of Motion

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Thing 17

I love the http://www.bubbbl.us/ site! I could use this to organize ideas for my students or my students would love to use it for their prewriting! It was easy to use and fun too!

Thing 16

I love this!! I can never remember if I've saved a document at home or at school and it's usually not in the place I need it to be! I've also lost several jump drives trying to tote them back and forth all of the time! Google Docs is easy to upload documents to and I love that I can send them to other s so they can improve/add to them! We had a staff meeting today and a 23 Things classmate shared this with the group. It was met with mixed reviews, but once you play with it and see how easy and time saving it is it will become indispensable!

Thing 15

I still don't have time to ckeck my RSS feed. I wasn't a fan in the begiining and I still don't love it!! The benefits might be numerous, but I don't have time!

Thing 15

RSS is easy to understand and I see the benefits of using it. I don't remember or have time to check the feeds regularly. Maybe if I found an awesome feed and I couldn't wait to see what they posted next it would work! So far not so much!

Thing 14

Delicious! lmcmaster is my username. I had a lot of fun with this site. I think it will be very beneficial. I can never remember what sites I like and this will help me keep them organized and accessible where ever I am! I also like that you can see where other people are going and what they think! This is very valuable for our Professional Learning Communities. I am looking forward to playing with it more and adding more sites to my personal page.

Thing 13

Tagging is a great way to find things quickly. The biggest downfall would be if you forgot what/how you tagged something! It would be important to make obvious tags that would make sense to the average person!

Thing 13

I had a lot of fun with this site. I think it will be very beneficial. I can never remember what sites I like and this will help me keep them organized and accessible where ever I am! I also like that you can see where other people are going and what they think! This is very valuable since we no longer have time for our Professional Learning Communities. I am looking forward to playing with it more and adding more sites to my personal page.

Thing 12

Embedding code seems to be pretty straight forward. I'm on Facebook and relationships formed online are not as meaningful as face-to-face relationships. Many people post about themselves with little interest to others, and those that are interested are usually the people you talk with daily anyway. It's a form of communication for those that live far apart, but should not be in place of face-to-face. Facebook and other social networking sites are so popular with kids today because they can say what they want whenever they want!

Thing 11

I like the blogging guidelines!! Leave something of value and don't feed the trolls! I don't know if I agree with "don't post just to post." Sometimes it's nice to know someone is reading even if they are just agreeing or "liking" your post!

Thing 10

I use this all of the time on my classroom blog! Great for extra information!

Thing 9

I like http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/ I tried the movie poster for my mom's 60th birthday and she loved it! I will go back to it. I'm not sure how I would use this in my classroom, but it is very cool to see all of the different things you can do! Trading cards would be very cool for the children to make!

Things 7 & 8

I've added Brycen's ultrasound picture to Flikr. I think I'll stick with Snapfish for my personal pictures.

THING 6

It was tough to find a picture that wasn't copyright protected! The pictures are great to look at. Wonderful pre-writing tool!

Thing 5

There are a bazillion cool feeds to follow, but I don't think I have time to read them all or even skim them all! I could be lost in Feed-town forever!! I found feeds on everything, and that was cool. Maybe a classroom feed to follow that evoked students' interest?

Thing 4

I'm not loving this one! I subscribed, but now what? I check it every day to see if anything new was posted? I guess it's great if you surf blogs every day. It would definitely save time...but it takes time to wade through all of the new posts you missed. I did find a cool blog called Grammar Girl that I liked. I don't know. I can't see using this often. Am I missing something?

Thing 1 & 2 (again)

This is my second time going through 23 thing and although I'm feeling overwhelmed with everything else we have to do on top of this I am looking forward to learning new "things." My blogging started out as a great success, but is currently in a bit of a stall. I don't know if students lost interest or I did. I tried to do a summer reading club on my blog over the summer but TWO kids responded all summer! Everyone had their books and we were ready to go but I guess when summer hit most lost interest. Karim and I had a great time...haha. I've not used it much this year. Maybe it's time to give it another shot!