Is It the End or Only the Beginning?

My favorite discovers of the 23 Things blog was the Animoto, Flowcarts and the Mashup.  I feel that all the applications I learned from 23 Things blog will help me be a more effective teacher in the future.  By using all these applications, I feel that students will be more engaged in the classroom.  Some of the take-a-ways from this program that surprised me was that how much fun it is to use all these applications.  I really enjoyed the applications were you can manipulate and do a slide show of pictures.  I feel that some of these application, which for the most are useful, are somewhat out of date or not as relevant.  For example, mostly everyone uses Facebook or Twitter and I felt that this application really shouldn't be used in a classroom setting.  What I have learned will influence my practices as a teacher by using the technology and applications that I have learned about in my future classroom.  A way that I will keep up with the developments in web 2.0 is by always looking for new applications out on the web and communicating with other teachers on what is the new application to use in the classroom.  I found web 2.0 to be useful by providing me with a lot of insight on how applications can make teachers lives more organized and easier.

Thing #23

Below is the 23 Things Teacher Blog credits that contains the creative commons licence for this blog.  I will use creative common licence in the future for any worksheets, blogs or webquest that I would create online.  I feel that I would want people to use my work as long as they did not change the work.  This creative common licence is known as Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND). I really like creative commons licence and feel that this will be the way of the future.

CREDITS

Learning 2.0 - 23 Things for Teachersis based on Learning 2.0 - 23 Things, a staff development program for theMesquite Independent School District. That program was based on theLearning 2.0 program that was designed by Helene Blowers and adapted by the California School Library Association and others. Content and style for Learning 2.0 - 23 Things for Teachers has been borrowed and duplicated with permission, under a Creative Commons License.

Thing #22

The titles of my LiveBinder It were Biology Worksheets, Biology Videos and Biology Lesson Plans. The link to my Biology Video binder is located here http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=871111.  For this activity I used live binders for my personal use.  If  I were to use this application for students in the classroom , I would have the students use LiveBinder It for projects that way I could easily see what resources they used for their projects.  You could also use LiveBinder It for websites that a teacher may use constantly that way they are easily accessible before class starts.

Thing #21

I really enjoyed using the Animoto application.  I decided to use my photos of my furry children and liked it so much that I posted it on my personal Facebook account.  I think this is a great tool and can be used for school activities such as putting pictures together of students that are working on a project.  I think students would really enjoy using this application.

Snuggas

Thing #20

I chose YouTube and have always liked this site when finding videos.  I chose a video that has biology students talking about ATP, which gives your muscles energy, in a fun way.  I like this video because students will find it funny and it will help them remember what ATP is for their general knowledge of biology. I would definitely use these resources in my future biology classroom.  Their could be features or components that could benefit our libraries website such that people can use videos for research purposes when writing a research paper.

Thing #19

I am a member of online communities such as Facebook and Twitter.  I have yet to be a member of a teacher online community until Today.  I really like the Classroom 2.0 due to the fact that you can communicate with other teachers to get ideas on better ways to teach and it has many resources that teachers can use in the classroom.  I will use Classroom 2.0 in the future.  Its a great tool for teachers that want to share ideas of teaching.  I liked the TeacherPop  community but just felt that it didn't have as many resources for teacher and was more of a forum for teachers.

Thing #18

It is important that teachers know how social networking works because they can use this technology to communicate with other teachers and organization that can enhance their teaching.  Also, it is a great way to keep up with current events in your field of teaching.  I have used Twitter and Facebook before for my personal use but one thing I did learn that was new was the fact that twitter has a lot of organizations that that are involving education.  Some of those include Ed Week Teacher, NOAA Teacher at Sea and Molecular Biology.  I like both Twitter and Facebook but tend to like Facebook more because I feel that it is more user friendly and you can do more things with it such as set up a profile of what your interest are and things you like to do for fun.  I feel that Facebook is more personal than Twitter.  I feel that Facebook has the most  useful features. I can see a school application for both Twitter and Facebook such that you can have students look up different organizations that apply to your subject area and see what they have to offer to the students.  Students maybe interested in seeing what that organization has to provide to society and if that is something they may want to do in their future.

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