Thing 24: Just The Beginning

My favorite exercises were all of the websites that used photos. I enjoy being creative (or at least trying to) with new ideas in education, and for the age group that I want to do is at a great age of imagination. With hands on activities my students will surely love using some of these websites that involve them and make them use their innocent imagination.

This program has shaped the way I think about technology because I want to use it more and more. I want to be able to use all of this technology in the classroom. Since our technology keeps getting better and better I need to learn and keep up with all of the changes.

In teaching 5th grade, or any grade that applies in my degree, technology will be a large part in my teaching. Computers, tablets, smart boards, and much more I will be able to use and have the students do their work on.

I plan on keeping this blog for my future use. With my time being very limited with sports, classes, friends, family and more I will not be using my blog as much as I wish I could. I would like to keep this blog for ideas to use in my classroom, which is coming up faster than I can believe. Only a few more years and I will be using most of these websites for MY students!

Thing 23

The Creative Commons website is very helpful for me. When teaching I will be using sources that I either asked for or were given to me by other teachers and I must make sure I give credit to them for all of the work they have done. Creative Commons automatically gives you eligibility in giving that person full credit they deserve. In doing so, it also gives you ideas that are free and will not need any credit. This is such a great tool to use in the future in my teaching career.

Thing 22

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1182290&backurl=/shelf/my

I did not like this site as much as the other sites we were able to go through and figure out what they were. This site is very complicated and not very user friendly. I felt like the instructions made no sense at some points and were to small to even read. Even trying to create a binder was very confusing, and I was not even sure where to start or where it ended. I was not a fan of this website.

Thing 21

http://animoto.com/play/FiQCd5XfTr8cEoS6ksMNPQ

This is such a fun and exciting website! I think it is so cool being able to put a collage together with music and a theme of the slideshow together. I could use this is so many ways for a classroom, like a christmas party picture collage or an end of the year quick overview. I enjoyed playing around with this site and all of the different pictures to be able to put into the slideshow.

Thing 20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSn92BJ636k

Teachers Tips: How To Start a Classroom is a great, short video that helps starter teachers with the basics in a short timely manner. I think that beginning teachers should take a look at this because it gives you a little push over your nerves of being in control of a classroom. This will make you feel more comfortable to have a good first day in an organized classroom.

http://prezi.com

Prezi is such a cool website that makes the best presentations! It is very interactive for students and can have different ways of organizing the information that you or they have found. Students will enjoy the colorful, interactive website that will help them get the best grade possible!

Thing 19

Using social networks as an educator is such a great idea! There are so many social networking sites that have great opportunities for teachers. I think a great website for all teachers is Pinterest! Pinterest is such a interesting, creative, website. So many ideas are on this site and you can split up your search in specific words that adhere to what you want. You can have "boards" which are the combination of all of the pins you have chosen. Keeping your ideas in an organized fashion is great, especially when you go through all of the hustle and bustle of the school day! This site is great, and I hope teachers begin using it more!

Thing 18

I already created a Twitter and a Facebook, along with more than half of the population of Americans into todays times. I have had much experience with Facebook considering I have had one since I was in eighth grade. Twitter is just a little different, I have not had Twitter for very long, (only about two years) which is not very long considering that Twitter has been out for a decently long period of time. I mainly use these sites for social networking, where I would post pictures, update my feed, and much more. Until recently, I never thought how these websites could be used towards educational purposes. But since most parents or children have a Facebook now a days I guess I could create many groups to inform them about upcoming events. It would be easier on Twitter to follow teachers themselves and learning about new things that way. Since I spend a lot of free time on these websites I could learn new educational ways on how to use them!