Thing 24- To be or not be that is the technicological question!

My favorite activities include: the anamito video maker (which I am now a subscriber) and the livebinder activity.  I am already planning to use these programs next year.  I think this program has influenced my lifelong learning goals because I try each week to incorporate more interactive lessons with more technology. I did experience an unexpected surprise when I got a better education on copyright laws and the creative commons.  I like the format and most of the 23 things but I feel like the "thing" that encompassed alternatives to microsoft office could have used a little more exercise collaboration between classmates for example.  I thought that googledocs could have had a group collaboration because we use it in CMCSS and it is a real world application that we will use again.  I really did enjoy this course.  i have used my interactive powerpoint with my kids and I know we will use them again next year.  I am still investigating the different features of web 2.0 but there are many programs we have learned about that I am planning for next years lesson plans.

Thing 23

I have used creative commons in my classroom already.  As we discussed plagiarism we talked about things that we can share.  As a class we went over the PowerPoint Presentation I created in this course.  We looked at the creative common symbols.
We discussed:

cc- creative commons licenses
•Not meant to compete with copyright
•Meant to go with copyright
•Means some rights reserved
•Grants permission in different ways for use of a work

We found this image which shows that the work has a creative commons license which can be used but credit must be given to the author, we can use the work but not for money, and we cannot change the original work. 

 

Thing 22

The titles of my livebinders are:  Geography, World History, US History.


Link to my Geography Binder

This is a great feature.  The use of livebinder can keep students who are absent up-to-date.  It also serves as a fail safe/space saver for materials needing to be stored.  I think that this was a neat project.  I also like that I can share it with my co-workers.

Thing 21

The Best things in My Life


Make your own slideshow at Animoto.
OMG! I love this site!! I am going to be subsribing to this one I can see!  It is so easy to use and makes such wonderful memories into an awesome show I love it!  i spent more time on this one project then I should have but I just could not drag myself away.  I know I will be using this next year as i take pictures of my classes and create and end of the year slide show!

Thing 20

I am a youtube.com fanatic. I spend a lot of my free time surfing this site. I even have upload a video of my little girl on here when she was a toddler. I think that this site is easy to use and has great video capability. I like that most bands put their music videos on youtube as well as all the funny videos that are out there waiting to make me laugh! I picked the video by Note to God by Rhema Marvanne. I like the video because it is a little girl (she is 8) singing a song about if she talked to God what she would ask for. Her video is a slide show of the people in the military being reunited and some being buried after giving the ultimate sacfrice. The song is more powerful with this slide shows in comparision with all the others that have been done in my opinion. Most of the times I watch the video I get teary eyed. Rhema is an inspiration because she lost her mother in 2008 and instead of withdrawing from the world she decided she wanted to be a gosphel singer like her mother.

Thing 19

I am now a member of the tasty kitchen. I like the tasty kitchen because it is easy to use and I plan on using the recipes and canning tips from there. I also belong to pinterest. I only joined pinterest last week but I have found out that I am always searching for neat crafts and things to do with my daughter on there.

Thing 18

I explored the social media sites and like facebook best. Honestly I like facebook because I am very familiar with it. I have found several useful things as a teacher that I can use facebook for. For example, their is a link for students to receive destination updates and pictures. I gave extra credit for my students to use facebook and create a picture collage of different popular locations with backgrounds and things one would want to see. Their background had to address the location of the places (continent, country), the climate of that area, the culture of the people that lived there. My students loved it! I like that I was already familiar with facebook and adding friends, adding groups, and things of that nature I am not sure I will ever get used to twitter. As I teacher I also find I can see what is going with my students on a personal level because most kids do not censor what they say on facebook. For instance, without even friending my students most of them have open profiles and I know one was sick this week and another student went to party and is grounded and yet another student's father deployed. It helps me monitor my students and the changes they go through in a school year without telling them that I am.