Monday, August 4, 2008
I'm done!
Wow, what a whirlwind of information! I am happy to be finished and happy to have all my new tools in my teaching arsenal!
Thing #23
1. My favorite discoveries or exercises were Thing #10 & 13. Del.icio.us & Big Huge Labs are both awesome and I see many uses for these!
2. After my head stops swimming & I am able to correctly file these tools in the right place in my brain, I see myself using some of these tools often and I am so thankful for this opportunity to expand my technilogical saaviness!
3. Not really, except that I have created another blog for my son and realized that it is apparently the "hip" thing to do when you have young, growing families. I have been able to reconnect with many of my friends indirectly because of this professional development assignment. Thanks SBISD!!!
4. The only thing I noticed is that a lot of this is geared toward librarians and so many of the sites/tools indicated are not really pertinent to a regular classroom teacher.
5. I would absolutely participate in another discovery program!
6. Using the tools I explored in my 23 Things experience, will certainly enhance & jazz up my teaching!
7. Sure thing!
2. After my head stops swimming & I am able to correctly file these tools in the right place in my brain, I see myself using some of these tools often and I am so thankful for this opportunity to expand my technilogical saaviness!
3. Not really, except that I have created another blog for my son and realized that it is apparently the "hip" thing to do when you have young, growing families. I have been able to reconnect with many of my friends indirectly because of this professional development assignment. Thanks SBISD!!!
4. The only thing I noticed is that a lot of this is geared toward librarians and so many of the sites/tools indicated are not really pertinent to a regular classroom teacher.
5. I would absolutely participate in another discovery program!
6. Using the tools I explored in my 23 Things experience, will certainly enhance & jazz up my teaching!
7. Sure thing!
Thing #22
Nings are pretty cool! Having used MySpace & Facebook before and listening to my students talk, I understand how important social networking is. For teachers solely, Nings could be used to share ideas....sort of like a ListServ. A teacher could also set up a Ning for students to post information & assignments, hold online office hours, etc. I think students would be very open to this method of interaction since they are so fond of Facebook & MySpace.
Thing #20
YouTube & TeacherTube are both very valuable tools for the classroom. The only problem I see with it is that YouTube is blocked by our computer security. I hope they change this. It is uber easy to embed videos into the blog and into presentations. Here is a video I found on TeacherTube on photosynthesis:
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