Yea~~ I did it!! :)
Wow!!! What a journey.
I have learned so many things that I did not even realize that were out there on the web. It will be a welcomed journey to continue on learning these things and perfecting how to use them personally and in the classroom. I really am going to use delicious and invite others with in the department to join and pool our sites that we have discovered together. I think it would be a great tool for all to use and to have for years to come.
Google calendar is going to be great for me! I love the way I can view it from different perspectives and can also make other calendars that show up on my original one.
What really surprised me is that I can now make a small video with pictures and music. I really like Animoto. I can share what could have been boring pictures to a small video that is entertaining.
I think that all of the things that I have learned will take me more into the future of teaching. It has really opened my eyes up to new ways to present and pull together information. I have the 23things bookmarked and will visit it often to go back and review and refresh my memory if needed. I hope it will still be there. If not I will search using the many tools that I have bookmarked and learned.
I would definitely sign up for future programs if they are made available.
Thank you for the journey!!!!! It has been GREAT!
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Thing # 23 - Creative Commons
The Disney video was really good on showing how copyright laws work. The 23 things blog credits that are under the current participants blogs shows that it is modified from another persons works. It originally had 43 things but was shortened for this class. Creative commons is a good site to help you out with copyright. I am going to share it with one of my friends that is an English teacher. She is always complaining about how the students don't give credit for their works. I will make sure that if I do use anything that I will give credit to the author and make sure that the students also do so when they do their projects. It is good to know that we have creative commons and our librarian for resources.
Thing #22 - Podcasts
Did you find a podcast that you might subscribe to and listen to regularly?
I started out listening to a learning spanish podcast that was okay but it did not keep my attention to keep on listening to learn. It was pretty blah. Then I found Good morning America that had various podcasts. GMA podcast. I listened to the one about summer frozen treats that were good for you. I didn't know that some ice creams had fiber and it was pretty interesting about how some are making low fat and calorie desserts to have the texture of those really GOOD ones that are bad for us. I added this site to my google reader because I like little excerpts about different things and interviews with different people. I do think that I will come back to it often because I listen to the tv while getting ready during school and sometimes wish that I could hear some of the things that they are going to talk about after I have to leave. This will give me the chance to do so now!
I didn't like many of the podcast directories because they were overwhelming with so much information. I guess since I didn't have something really in mind is why I had such a hard time choosing at first.
Truthfully this thing has not inspired me yet. I will have to come back and play with it but I just need to know more and feel a little more comfortable with it.
I started out listening to a learning spanish podcast that was okay but it did not keep my attention to keep on listening to learn. It was pretty blah. Then I found Good morning America that had various podcasts. GMA podcast. I listened to the one about summer frozen treats that were good for you. I didn't know that some ice creams had fiber and it was pretty interesting about how some are making low fat and calorie desserts to have the texture of those really GOOD ones that are bad for us. I added this site to my google reader because I like little excerpts about different things and interviews with different people. I do think that I will come back to it often because I listen to the tv while getting ready during school and sometimes wish that I could hear some of the things that they are going to talk about after I have to leave. This will give me the chance to do so now!
I didn't like many of the podcast directories because they were overwhelming with so much information. I guess since I didn't have something really in mind is why I had such a hard time choosing at first.
Truthfully this thing has not inspired me yet. I will have to come back and play with it but I just need to know more and feel a little more comfortable with it.
Thing #21 Video
Summer Vacation 2008
WOW! I can't believe how easy this was after downloading the pictures. I downloaded some of our pictures from last week on vacation to flickr and that is what took the longest. (There has to be a faster way than just doing one picture at a time. If someone has a tip please let me know. I just didn't see it I guess.) I just love the video and I know that I will be playing around with this one for a long time. This is just wonderful to see your pictures set to music! What beautiful memories!!!!! I just love it.
WOW! I can't believe how easy this was after downloading the pictures. I downloaded some of our pictures from last week on vacation to flickr and that is what took the longest. (There has to be a faster way than just doing one picture at a time. If someone has a tip please let me know. I just didn't see it I guess.) I just love the video and I know that I will be playing around with this one for a long time. This is just wonderful to see your pictures set to music! What beautiful memories!!!!! I just love it.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Thing #20 - YouTube
This is really a neat site. I looked at commercials and other things. I really like it.
The video that I choose to link here was about the band Journey. It is an interview with the band and their newest lead singer, Arnel Pineda. The band was looking for a new singer and one of the members was surfing You Tube one night and came across a video of Ariel singing some of Journeys songs and could not believe his ears. He contacted the singer and the rest is history. It is a neat story of how a singer in a tribute band is discovered from the Philippines and becomes the lead singer of the real rock band Journey here in the United States. I loved this band when I was in college and have bought the new CD with Arnel singing. It is unbelievable the uncanny resemblance of his voice to the original singer Steve Perry. The story is neat and makes you feel that anything is possible! Don't stop believing!!!!
I think that the site would be good for the library if the students would use it to really spice up and be creative with presentations. I think most would use it correctly but I don't know how the library would filter all the junk out.
The video that I choose to link here was about the band Journey. It is an interview with the band and their newest lead singer, Arnel Pineda. The band was looking for a new singer and one of the members was surfing You Tube one night and came across a video of Ariel singing some of Journeys songs and could not believe his ears. He contacted the singer and the rest is history. It is a neat story of how a singer in a tribute band is discovered from the Philippines and becomes the lead singer of the real rock band Journey here in the United States. I loved this band when I was in college and have bought the new CD with Arnel singing. It is unbelievable the uncanny resemblance of his voice to the original singer Steve Perry. The story is neat and makes you feel that anything is possible! Don't stop believing!!!!
I think that the site would be good for the library if the students would use it to really spice up and be creative with presentations. I think most would use it correctly but I don't know how the library would filter all the junk out.
Thing #19 - Beyond MySpace: other social networks
Well I guess I will try this again. I was saving and the server went down on me. I had been having trouble with uploading the ning badge here so I just placed it on my own my space page. The network that I am part of is the ning network now of MISD 23 things. I uploaded photos from flickr and the badge to my space. The other network that was of interest to me was Project playlist. I think I will give the site to my students use to place music in their slide show project that I have them do in geometry each year. It will be more creative and fun with a little flair!
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