ONE LAST THING....FINALLY Finished!

I have learned alot by having this blog and doing The 23 Things for my EDUC 3040 Technology class.

Before this class I had no idea what a podcast was. Let alone how to use or integrate it into my future classroom!

I feel like I will take alot from this class and we are only halfway over. I can only imagine what is left to learn in here. I have enjoyed Ms Castleberry and Dr Wall for their creativity in this class. I am really looking forward to graduating and getting my own classroom!
Still looking forward to being Mrs Morgan Kindergarten Teacher!

Thing #23

APSU 23 Things is copied off of another's work. Dr Wall gives the original author credit on one of the pages. It is a link of  43Things. I think that is rather cool. I like how I have learned to link things up. It has become second nature to me.

I will definately use creative commons as a teacher. I also will share it with my students. I feel like the more practice you have the better you will become aquainted with whatever it is that you are using. If I start my younger students with creative commons by the time they get to high school they will be pros at it!

As a teacher I also will continue to use creative commons so that I can make sure I am using things legally and setting a good example for my students!

Thing # 22

I can not believe that the word "podcast" was word of the year in 2005. It is now 2010 and I had no idea what a podcast was until I had to make one for my Educ 3040 Technology Class. All I can say is WOW! I am really liking the podcast thing! I will definately use it when I start teaching. I feel like it is a good way to get my students attention. I will use a podcast and then asign a worksheet with it. (This makes it beneficial for the students to pay attention.)
Ok so on to finish thing #22!

Well I clicked on several different podcasts and I tried all 3 of the links that Dr Wall put up here. There was only one that actually worked. And It was pretty stupid so I am not gonna say what it was or connect the link to my blog. I dont want to offend anyone and I surely dont want to be associated with listening to something like that! LOL I know I am weird!.
I did create my own podcast. I read a book "Why do leaves change colors?" by Dr. Marian Jacobs. I also created a worksheet to be used with my podcast.

Thing #21

Making my own video was very fun! I am loving this! I can make one for free it is limited to a 30 second video! We will see how it turns out. It is processing while I am typing into my blog. It really was easy and like Dr. Wall said you really dont have to be Steven Spielburg! That was very easy and alot of fun! I chose to do a video of our family Vacation to Texas last August! I had some really great pics showing how out going and funny my kiddos are! They are the love of my life!

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Thing #20

While exploring you tube, I thought about something my EDUC 2100 professor taught me. We live in a Global economy. She was absolutely correct, it is because the internet reaches all over the world! While in that class we watched a video about civil rights. I was going through Youtube and I found something that really caught my eye. I would love to share it with everyone that comes into contact with my blog!

I have wanted to be a teacher for many years. I have driven education into my childrens brain. My whole household takes education very serious and I have always been involved and communicated with their teachers and their education. I do "down and dirty" they keep absolutely no secrets from me or their dad. I know this because we DO NOT give them the opportunity to "hide" anything from us. Without further ado here is the video that caught my attention.

Thing #19

I selected Teacher Pop! I am awaiting to be accepted by the administrator! I will come back and blog about this a little later.

So it is now a little later! lol

I set up my page and it really reminds me of myspace! I added a picture to my profile. It is very user friendly and I connected it with my facebook. I think this is going to be a really good networking site for me as an upcoming teacher! I am going to continue to use this site!

I think this is my badge:

Visit TeacherPop

Thing #18

I already have a myspace and a facebook. Myspace is really old and I never log into it anymore. My facebook is something I log into often. (It actually depends on how much homework I have.)

This is my facebook. I dont know if you can view it cause it is private! I have like 200 friends and I am nto wanting to add anymore! lol....it is enough to keep up with.

I think it is beneficial for educators to know how to social network, it is one of the best ways to stay up to date with what is going on with your students (this applies to older students really). The one thing that I do not like about the sites is having to share your personal information. That is the one thing about today's society that really bothers me. You should not put anything on the web that is truly private. There are so many ways that your stuff can be hacked into even with a virus protector!
I do not think that this should be used especially if minors are involved, we have to be especially careful when we are doing things with other's children.

Thing #17

Del.icio.us is a good website. It has alot of things on it and I found the best way to search for things is in the search bar! I think that social tagging or bookmarking is a very good idea for teachers! I think that a group of educators can see what is going on, follow the feeds, and give ideas to other educators! I really like the ability to social network in the same area. I feel like this opens the door for many other ways to succeed as a teacher.

Thing #16

I am a google nerd! So of course Google is already my homepage. I simply created my own unique "Google homepage!" It was easy and fun! I attached all my RSS feeds on there that we signed up for earlier in the 23 things blog. I added a calender on there and put when my upcoming tests and homework that is do for my classes. I have to say I am in love with this new homepage! It has me wrote all over it! I am going to keep it as my permanent homepage! This was very fun for me! I think the calenders will be very helpful. I also can use this when I start teaching to track my conferences! How exciting!! I dont really know what I think about the to do lists. I will have to see how that pans out!

Thing # 15

So I never figured this out! I am so frustrated that I could not figure this one out! I like to think that I am pretty technology inclined, but I am so lost on this. I enabled my account and logged in. Could not figure out though how to make it work. I closed everything out and then tried to log back in and it said I had to enable cookies! All I can say is GRRRRRRRRR!

Thing #14

You see the mind map created in mindmeister! It was not that easy to work with. I really did not care much for the program. I like alot more colors and things are that user friendly. I found this to be frustrating to me. I chose mndmeister because it did seem easy and I could work on my blog and complete the 14th thing right away.

The next thing I worked on was a flowchart. I chose Gliffy to make my flowchart! I found this website to be user friendly, and I love the capabilities to use colors and arrows efficiently and effectly! I have to say this one is my favorite! The one thing that I can not figure out is how to post it to my blog. I will continue to work on it until I figure it out.

ok, so as you can see I fugured it out. It really did not take too long about 10 minutes! You go to share, and a window pops up. You then click on "use these handy links" and another window pops up. It is your flowchart. I right clicked on it and saved picture as... and saved it to my PC and then I simply inserted the image into my blog!



Thing #13

It has been a while since I was on here. Mid-terms are now over with! WHEW! I am glad that week is over! So it is back to the grindstone to finish up this semester.

I am now on thing 13 as you can see. It is online apps, and I went with Zoho Writer! I created my account (which was very easy, I just hope I can remember all my passwords for all the different websites). LOL

I created and played in Zoho Writer. I really love it! I will continue to use this online application for years to come. I created a cheesy page where I was just playing around with it. I am going to put it here in my blog!

Well first attempt was..../fail! lol.....Let me see if I can figure this out!
  My Zoho Writer

2nd Attempt was a success. I will share with you how I figured it out! I clicked on: "share" and then I clicked on  "post to blog"  I then went to my blog and clicked on link and named it and entered the link address and
Waa Laa! It worked!! YAY!!