Thing 15

I am not sure how I feel about  the the APSU sandbox. It is neat that you can go in and edit your own things but I feel like you can do that anyways on your own. One of my own favorites was the pictures of Ireland that I made into a collage. I would like to keep adding other photos to that and may one day even some of my own from Ireland! Something I do not particularly like is that you can go in and edit someones work.

Is it the End or Only the Beginning?

There were quite a few things that I enjoyed doing during the 23 Things. I really liked the Animoto site. I think that that will be useful for many different subjects and topics. I also really enjoyed flickr and getting into Pandora. There were a lot of things that I feel I will be able to look back on and use again when I have my own classroom.

Thing 4

 Commenting is what keeps a blog going and is kind of what a blog is about. It creates a sense of community because more than likely you have the same people who come back to visit your blog and put in their opinions and comments. I found it important to know that there is an etiquette to being a part of blogs. You need to know that there are multiple ways to respond and I am sure that goes both ways. You making a comment is like voting and saying that the blog post is important.The first blog that I chose to make a comment on was Ashlee Boyd's Thing 16. As I was reading her post I realized that we had that one in common and I thought it would be nice to share that. My next post was to Kara Wyatt's Thing 21. Making the video was also my favorite and I really enjoyed finding and using that website. I think that it will be great to use in the classroom. My third comment was on Hannah Stone's Thing 12. She really liked the Google Calenders and even though I was not too keen on them at first, I know now that they can be very useful. My internship has shown me that this could be very useful for the company and keeping things organized. The fourth post went to Reneice Glasper's Thing 15. Wiki is such a tricky website to use by she had such a great idea. Letting the students use it for summaries would be a great idea. There would be different interpretations and in the end we could go over it as a class. My fifth post went on Darryl Haislip's Thing 6. I thought that the maps were also very useful and could be used in everyday life. We always want to teach our students about things that they can take with them and this is one of those things.  A post I chose outside of our class was from a website called A Cupcake for the Teacher.blogspot. It was on organizing you bulletin board supplies. Not being in my own classroom yet, this was a helpful hint for me. It is always nice to learn things from those who have already experienced it and she is still new, only teaching for 4 years. For my last comment on a blog I chose Ms. Cassidy's Classroom Blog on a Animoto video. I really enjoyed using that and she used it in her classroom for painting's that students were creating base on Van Gogh. I though this was a great idea and it could be put to use when I have my own classroom.

Thing 23

http://sjlibrary23.blogspot.com/
This is an example of another 23 Things that show's we are not the only ones who are participating in the activity.

As a future teacher  I will use creative commons to remind myself that I must get permission to use someone's work and give credit where credit is due. I will also use it to teach my students that they need to remember copy right laws and to make sure to give credit where it is deserved.

Thing 22

http://www.livebinders.com/edit/index/374333#All of my Live Binders for this are titled Education.  This specific Live Binder is one that has different links for kids to play games to help with learning. I am currently using Live Binder in another class for a Case Study and Assistive Technology. This would be great for the classroom because you can save multiple websites that you may want to use for different lessons. You could put websites for all subjects and use them to teach or use as assistive technology. Students could make one as well, with help, to keep track of helpful sites and ones that they can share with their fellow classmates.

Thing 21

I really enjoyed using Animoto! It is a really neat website and there are a lot of things that you could do with it. The first thing that came to mind was using it for different events at school to make a video for students to watch of photos taken. We could also use it for a video for the end of the year to look back at all the fun we had! This is definitely something I will use in the future.

Make your own slideshow at Animoto.

Thing 20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6uYhDU5tvg     Special Education Teaching: Teaching Strategies in Special Education

I really like YouTube. There are so many different videos and many different areas where you can look up information. People make videos on things such as strategies, how to use different tools, classroom management, etc. I chose this one because I think that we sometimes find it difficult to incorporate different strategies in the general education classroom for those with special needs. There is always help you just have to know where to look and take the time to do it.