One last thing!

I thought this was a very interesting way to help future teacher canidates learn about the useful and new technologies to use within the classroom and within our own studies. My favorite things were the one that let us be creative with our own pictures as well as the exploration of organizational sites. I will continue to use the many different accounts that I have acquired while completing 23 things. The only thing I found a little unsatisfying about the 23 things was that towards the end it seemed to be a little repetitive. Some of the things seemed to overlap. I will use many of these items from web 2.0 in my classroom as well as ensure that my students are well known with the programs. I hope to maintain my blog and keep up with others from my class so that we can all share the new technologies and ideas that are being created on the web every day. My blog would be an awesome way to track my success through being a teacher candidate, graduating, and becoming a teacher with a classroom of my own where I can share the many tools the world wide web ha to offer with younger generations to stimulate their minds.

Thing 23

I will use Creative commons in my future teaching adventures to be sure I am using correctly credited work and that the work is original and reliable. Ensuring that the things you use and reference are credited to the person who created them is professional courtesy.

Thing 22

http://www.livebinders.com/edit?id=255969
The titles of my binders are inclusion of disabilities in education, educational lessons, and education learning games. I have attached a copy of my inclusion binder. I used this binder to keep all my research pages from a recent project into one place were I can easily access my information from any computer by simply logging on my binder. Live binders would be a great way to keep an organized account for all my lessons and activities that I find useful online, as well as the best websites to receive worksheets from so that they may not be lost.

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Video Clip from Animoto!

Thing 21

Using Animoto was a very fun expierience. I enjoyed being able to take my own pictures and create a video clip. This kind of clip would be great to use as an introduction of yourself and some of the people in your life to your kids on the first day of class. As well, this would be a great way to introduce a project within class or to your classroom. A teacher could also use this to display pictures on parent night at school.

Thing 20

http://youtu.be/fVTSojcKAYo

I found a great video while searching you tube about restrictive internet blocks for school computers to ensure that students are visiting school appropriate and research based sites. Searching on you tube for a particular video is quite easy at times, however sometimes very challenging. Some searches may come across videos that are irrelevant to the material you are searching for, however sometimes one can find much useful information. You tube does a great job of provided you with related videos not only on the search page, but while watching a video there is always a related list to the right of the website. If a library website were to have a similar site that collected videos that were appropriate for student's age or for educators, I believe it would be a very useful tool.

Thing 19

I decided to become a member of Teacher Pop. I have not yet posted anything on the site, however while searching around and reading the replies to many of the forums that had been started, I began to realize how useful this social networking site could be. Unlike many other social networks that I have been involved in, this site has relevant and useful information that a future teacher or current teacher can apply within their classroom and curriculum. I plan to use this site throughout my school and even as I become a professional. I found this site to be the best and most rewarding social network for future and current educators. 

Thing 18

I have explored both Twitter and Facebook. However, being more familiar and common with Facebook I found it much more useful and easier to navigate. Facebook is a great social networking site however I do not believe it is useful in the classroom. This site should be private and as all teachers and teacher candidates should know, you must be very careful of the information placed on public social networking sites. Facebook has been a wonderful way for me to connect with past teachers and keep them current with my success and education however, students and teachers should have separate lives on these sites.
Here is a link to my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/jessica.d.patterson1

Thing 17

After joining Delicious i found it a very interesting tool to search through. Under the education technology search I found a very neat site called teacher tube. The site had great reviews from many teachers and educators as well as parents. This is a very simple and easy way to create great bookmarks. This would be helpful for college while doing projects and bookmarking many pages as well as seeing other pages that people fund useful and relevant. I would also use this as an essential tool to mark useful pages for ideas, worksheets, and projects in my own classroom. This way I can click on button and have a list a useful sites for the classroom and be able to leave my own notes that I can understand to make finding a particular site easier.

Thing 16

I began searching by clicking on the link to the Top 25 web organizational skills. From there I searched through the sites that were highlighted until one caught my eye. My stickies stuck out on the site. On this site you can create stick notes for reminders of things such as projects, deadlines, and meetings! However, instead of simply just creating the sticky note and leaving it on that site< i downloaded the browser connection which allows me to place the sticky not anywhere on any webpage. This along with online calendars and to do list make it easier that ever to keep yourself organized. The best part of it all is it's all online therefore there is no mess of papers and sticky notes to keep up with and organized. This tool can be used for projects assignments and meetings at school as well as keeping up with a schedule of classes. At home this calendars can be useful to keep up with appointments and dates as well as a to do list for things around the home. I will definitely use the tool on my home computer.