Thing # 23 Final Thoughts

WHEW! I am done! I really liked it! I will be doing the next set next year!

What were your favorite discoveries or exercised on this learning journey? I liked the photo story and the mashups and of course flikr!

How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals? I always like to see what the new stuff is out there but never never have the time to really just browse online. I normally stay with the same sites but this "class" is good because it exposed me to some things I didn't' know were out there!

Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you? The amount of time I could become engrossed in these applications. I would look up and hours would be gone!

What could we do differently to improve upon this program's format or concept? I think you could list more options and the participant could pick the 23 they want to do. So that everyone had the same about of blogs etc but had the choice to try ALL new things. For example, I had seen wordle, you tube and teacher tube as well as some of the other ones but if you listed about 30 and I chose the 23 I wanted then that would be good to have some choice.

If we offered another discovery program like this in the future would you choose to participate?
Definitely! This is a great way to get your hours in at your own pace.

How would you describe your learning experience in one word or in one sentence, so we could use your words to promote 23 things learning activities? FUN!

Thanks so much for putting this all together it has been a real eye opener and I will definitely be putting this to use in my classroom!!

CC

Thing # 22 Ning

What a neat idea! I don't know if I want my students to be out there "in the wild" but a social networking page that I control would be neat!! I love the Elementary Ning. You could set it up to share with other educators to share ideas across the world! LOVE IT! I already do face book but this is better because it merges both the aspects of a wiki with the social part! Super cool!

Thing # 21 Photo Story

I like these. I used to use Animoto but the quality isn't too good unless you buy it in hd format for a fee.

I like it. This is justmy practice one I didn't have the right music on this computer!

CC

Thing # 20 You Tube and Teacher Tube

Every year I have the students make Rube Goldberg machines on paper when we talk about systems in everyday life. These are fun and the kids love them! I show these two videos to discuss and explain what exactly a Rube Goldberg machine is and the concepts! Check them out!




Don't worry this is paint on the guy not blood. It is student friendly!




This one is the honda commercial from a while ago.

Both super fun!
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Things # 19 Web 2.0 Awards

What is special about the tool?
One tool is the travel section winner where you can search different travel sites is called farecast. It is so fun. There is a Math Menu that I have been working on involving flight schedules and how much money it would take to fly different places this is a really neat little site that compares travel sites with putting in one set of dates! I love it!

I also really like Pandora! I made my own channel and really like that I can play it in the background. I made one for the class that is very calming to play when the students are doing the morning warm up and during journal time.

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Thing # 18 Online Producticity Tools

I really like these. I like that you can collaborate on the same document. I like that it is web based so that students can access it from anywhere. I really love it. It is so easy to use. I will be using this a lot on my school computers because the students can go to any computer and log on to this site to find the documents to work on. No need to save to the desktop and have to only work on that one computer! GREAT GREAT GREAT! What a find!

CC

Thing # 17 Rollyo

I like the idea but I am having trouble deciding what to use it on. I could make a safe search engine for my students directly related to what my class is searching but I think I need to do more thinking on what exactly to put in there! Maybe I could try to set it up for the scientist wiki that I am going to set up. I could set it up so that the students get accurate information.

I did like all the already made things that were fun to try out. The celebrity gossip one was fun to try too!