AHH! So it was called 23 Things, but alas, there is a Thing 24. Or Thing 23 1/2. However you want to do it...for this last one I am going to copy and paste the questions. If you'd like to see what I have to say about my experience feel free to read ahead! If not, and if you've not checked out some of my other entries, go back and take a peek at them. This has been a semester long project and although it's been fun, I'm ready to be done and focus back on my food blog!
1. Please give us some feedback by reflecting on your learning journey
in one more blog posting. Here are some questions to guide you:
- What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
-I must say that anything I was able to log in with Google was the best for me. Although it was fun playing around with new tools, I did not like having to sign up for so many things that I may not use again.
- How has this program affected your lifelong learning goals?
-I do have greater aspirations to find everything that the web has to offer now. I imagine there are and will be many tools out there that will aid me on my path to becoming a great teacher.
- Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
-I thought I knew about everything Google had to offer, so I was quite surprised to see just how much there really is out there.
- What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
-Don't make us sign up for so many accounts!
- How will what you have learned influence your practice as a teacher?
-I will definitely be relying more on technology than I previously might have.
- How do you plan to keep up with new developments in web 2.0? Recommend a way that you have found to be useful.
-Google searches! Good gracious I am a Google fan girl!
2. Where do you go from here?
Welp, I do plan to maintain my food blog and improve upon it since I have a few folks interested in it. I may also keep up with my Live Binders since they are pretty useful as well as the sites for creating flow charts. I can see myself needing those again.
AAAAAAAAAND done!
Creative Commons is somewhat of a "soft copyright". Click that link for a better explanation than what I can offer. But we all know that in this day and age, information is just out there for the taking. This doesn't necessarily mean that people who work hard to create something want for others just to take it, modify it or heaven forbid re-distribute it as their own. Hence Creative Commons!
Thing 23 asked me to find evidence that the Learning 2.0 - 23 Things for Teachers blog was based on someone else's work and modified from its original. I decided to start from the beginning. I clicked on Thing 1 and from the get go it links you to a tutorial that is credited to someone else. The 23 Things is basically a blog as well as a compilation of other people's work.
How will I use my knowledge of Creative Commons in the future as a teacher? Well the very simple answer is for lesson plans. I intend to come up with some pretty banging lesson plans and if fellow teachers want to use it, that is GREAT! Just don't steal my work and call it yours is all I ask.
Question of the Day: Do you think you would ever need to use Creative Commons for anything?
Ok so Thing 22 gives me yet another online resource available to help me keep myself organized: Live Binders. I have been assigned the task to sign up for this free source and create 3 education binders, one of which I will be sharing with you! First I should give a quick explanation of what Live Binders actually does. It gives you a place to keep related files together, such as Word docs, PDF's, websites, etc..
Right off the bat I'm a bit irritated. This website runs crazy slowly and I've had to hit "stop" and "reload" already...but ok let's power through this! I figure it's a good idea to make myself a binder with some of the Web 2.0 tools I've been introduced to through this project. I just added 3 to this one for demonstrative purposes. It's pretty user friendly and each to navigate once you've added content.
YAY so I successfully embedded the first binder. The second one I did I played around with making sub-tabs, a way of organizing things into more specific categories. I only did one tab on this one just for illustrative purposes, so here ya go:
For my last one, I decided to click the option under creating a new binder to fill it with a Google search. I typed "tips for teaching second grade" in the Google search field to see what kind of binder it would create for me! If you don't look at the others, GO LOOK AT THIS ONE! This is a crazy good example of what you can really do with this tool! SERIOUSLY! CLICK IT!
So on to the issue at hand...how would I use this in the classroom? Well I think that last example sums it up. As a teacher, I need to stay organized and on top of my game. By utilizing this organization tool, I can keep up with blogs, news, as well as keeping my own personal websites organized. I like it a lot!
Question of the Day: Did you actually look at any of my binders? :P
