One last thing!!

Over the course of this enduring activity, I have found oh so many things to help and aid myself and others in the technological world. Web 2.0 is hott stuff, while the podcasts are not too far behind. I also found by using such programs as excel, we can make our lives so much easier as we start in the teaching world! I must commend Dr. Wall in assisting me in every step we came upon, she was there with open arms to lead us in the right direction. As far as the blogging goes, it may continue, I will say as a whole it has been a pretty neat tool getting to write my own things as well as reading many others!! I know this is farewell for now, but good luck in all you do and God bless you all!!

Thing #23

Creative commons is a way of allowing others to share your material. When talking about our "23 things", I thought until now, that Dr. Wall had taken it upon herself to create something like this. I mean, she did win a very prestigious award! To me it only made since when you put 2 and two together.. However, I was wrong, The original 23 things was created by Helene Blowers. Using her "23 things" as a tool for her staff to further educate themselves in the technology department! Since then, her original 23 things has moved on and on and on to many other teachers and professors in the world!

Thing #22

Podcasts came around in 2005 and even today I knew little or nothing really about them. Only until being assigned to having to make my own, the only thing I ever heard about them was that some day, professors could use them to teach their lessons. With this being said, I can now understand what in the world they were referring to and talking about. After messing around and searching the different podcasts that are out there, I asked a professor about podcasts.. He then led me to this particular podcasts that I have found to be very unique and neat! We used the link in itunes to access this podcast.

Thing #21

Ok, so after doing the youtube one, It took me a while to get back on the track of things and start to do work again. Anyways, this blog is about Animoto! If you haven't heard about it, you should definitely check it out!! It's a very neat site to where you can take your photos and make them into videos and such with music playing behind them. Once again, a pretty neat feature dealing with technology! Here is my awesome video!!

Thing #20

You tube is also one of these new technological features that has came out and can benefit us in so many different ways. Although, most of the time, I only look up funny videos on there, there are also instructional videos to show you everything from how to play the piano, to how to use microsoft word. Whatever the case, I'm pretty sure youtube will have some form of video on it. When the instructions for this post asked us to link a video that we found on youtube, this one came to mind. I just recently stumbled upon it, but no matter how many times I watch it- I laugh histerically every time!! Hope you enjoy!!





Here is another video I enjoy watching to get a good laugh.. Depends on what you're into bur it incorporates a variety of music that I like!! Funny Video- check it out!!

Thing #19

Although I never thought facebook and myspace would be overcome, there are many other social networks who are not far behind in the popularity ranks! I checked out teacherpop and found it to be a very interesting site to communicate with others in some of the same ways as facebook and myspace work. Giving praise to know Dr. Wall created something of such nature makes it all the better!! To actually be able to say, "hey, I know the person who created and is in charge of that," makes me so excited. I know it may not be on the same level as knowing someone like Michael Jordan or someone with such popularity, but it will come!! In due time, it will come and we'll all be able to say hey, we know her on a personal level!! Other than that, I created an account along with posting comments and attempting to put up a picture... That will also have to wait till later tonight where I'm on another computer... For some random reason this on isn't wanting to cooperate!!

Thing #18

Facebook and Myspace have been two of the most renowned social networking sites in today's day and age. Since the beginning college, I have had a facebook account as well as a myspace account. Both of which I use to communicate with friends and family in many different ways. You use both of these as reminders to remind you of which events you will be attending or someone's birthday you forgot about. Something they just added not too long ago to both sites is the chat feature. I haven't found myself using this too often, but this feature is neat because it allows you to chat with any and all of your friends whenever you are online. You could use this in the education department a couple different ways. From an educators standpoint, you could keep track of the students in your classroom or even school. From a students standpoint, you could use the chat feature as a way of online tutoring.

Thing #17

When I first thought about this particular part of the project, I was convinced tagging dealt with tagging more about pictures. I didn't know if was going to be used like this. Very similar to a bookmark at first, I was confused as to what this had over a regular bookmark or favorite we've known to use for some time now.. However, I was soon to discover that it had so many more options than a bookmark has. Even though the things you tag are public, I have found this to be a neat tool to be used in education. I think as a teacher, you could assign assignments, using particular tags you have made under your user name, for the students to take advantage of in effort to finding the answers within the pages you have tagged.

Thing #16

Google has pretty much taken over my life.. Being that there is still many things in life that I don't know the answer to , I tend to look to google as a companion in that department being that I use it on a daily basis. From looking up questions that are assigned homework, to looking up fun internet games to play while I'm taking a break from my schoolwork. Either way, I even have google chrome set up as my default browser to get online.. From there I have it customized the way I like for it to look like so it doesn't necessarily get old to look at.. Seemingly like the basic internet explorer window that everyone is accustomed to using everywhere known to those who get online. Saying this, "thing #16" asks you to experiment with other web 2.0 tools. So I chose to go with igoogle. First off, adding an online calendar accessible from any and all computers is a must. I store everything in my cell phone as far as appointments, assignments, and many other things such as birthdays.. I know I don't have the most high tech cell phone like almost everyone else with the iphones and such, but I do know I try to make it work like those fancier phones! The only bad things with using a cell phone to organize things of such nature is they break. Once they break, they're broken and the information you once saved is non-transferable so it's LOST!!! So this is somewhere an online calendar would be most beneficial for me!!

Thing #15

Wiki's are down right just AMAZING!! All those classes and projects where everyone had to group up and work together has now hit a new day and age. Being able to go in and edit things as a group instead of having to email things back and forth, and back and forth again in order to edit something or someone's idea has made life so much easier. With this being said, I wouldn't have known of such things as this if I weren't in this class! Now, all those countless emails it took hours to delete because they were never right and just took up space can be cut out without ever having to happen.

Thing #14

Flow Charts and Mind Maps are can be found to be a creative example of expressing ur ideas about certain topics. Let alone, they can also be powerful teaching tools. I can't tell you how many books I've went through in college that didn't have either one of these. Just for the simple fact that it doesn't happen... I recently used bubbl.us in creating a mind map (concept map) for an integrated unit plan over Thanksgiving! I found it to be resourceful, easy , and very easy on one's eyes (colorful).

When talking about the flowcharts found at flowchart.com and gliffy, I only played around with them and didn't really create something that was as important as the concept map. I find these things to be more beneficial than people think about them. Having the technology and resources such as these also cut time in having to go back and start over if you were to be using the generic pencil and paper.

Test Document

Hey there!!
    
    This is my test document in Zoho Writer. This is a neat new thing that I think will help all of those who have any type of writing assignments. I'm new to the Zoho writer but have used Google Docs prior to today. I started using it when my Microsoft Office was expired and didn't have the money and/or resources to purchase a new version. Essentially, this is a new generation of writing documents and it's FREE!!!!!


Dusty

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Thing #13

Hey there!!

This blog is about Zoho Writer. This is a neat new thing that I think will help all of those who have any type of writing assignments. I'm new to the Zoho writer but have used Google Docs prior to today. I started using it when my Microsoft Office was expired and didn't have the money and/or resources to purchase a new version. Essentially, this is a new generation of writing documents and it's FREE!!!!