Final Thoughts

My two favorite exercise were the mashup and the animoto. I have learned that there are a lot of websites out there to help with incorporating technology into the classroom and to help me as a  teacher with lesson plans. There weren't any unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised me. In the future, I will look back at my blog and see how I can use the websites that I learned about in this program to help with my classroom. There were so many different tools that we learned about that I could see myself using in my teaching. I plan to keep up with technology by staying current with what is new on the internet.

Thing 23

While exploring the Creative Commons website, I learned that if I want other people to be able to legally use my work, then I have to add a creative commons. I will use this in my classroom by putting a creative commons only on worksheets, lesson plans, or any other work that I created that I want other people to be able to use as their own. If I come up with a worksheet that for some reason I don't want to share with others, I will just not put a creative commons on it.

Thing 22

The titles of my binders are Math, English, and Science. http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=661609&backurl=/shelf/my is the link to my Math binder. I could use LiveBinder by looking up lesson plan ideas and worksheets. Once I pick a few lesson plans or worksheets that I want to use, I could put them into a specific binder that pertains to a specific subject. I could then use those worksheet and lesson plans and put them in my lesson plans for my classroom.

Thing 21

Best Friends I had so much fun using this!! I played around on the site for at least an hour. It is a great tool to make pictures into a video and have fun!

Thing 20

I really like youtube. I think that it is a great website for many reasons! Youtube can be used for almost anything. You can find educational things on there, music, communicate across the nation, and much more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoyQPEx3xRI&feature=plcp The reason that I chose this link was because it is a video of a dance that I competed 4 years ago. There was a girl that was in Los Angeles and she was in the dance, but she had to learn it in a short period of time. We decided to post the video on youtube so that she could learn it while she was away. I thought that this was a really neat idea and an awesome use of youtube. I could see youtube being useful for my library website. The school could post pep rallies and different events on there as well as going around the school and taking short videos of each classroom. Kids would love this because they would feel like they are famous for being on the internet.

Thing 19

I am not a member of any online communities. I really liked the crafts link under hobbies. I would use this in my everyday life, as well as in my classroom. I could use it to get ideas for when I want to do crafts in the classroom to incorporate with what we are learning that day. I really enjoyed going through all of the sites and getting fun ideas for everyday life.

Thing 18

Link to my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/taylor.engel.37

It is important for teachers to know how social networking works because it is a way for them to stay connected to what is going on around them. I did not know that schools had their own pages on Facebook. I thought that was really cool because parents can like these pages and always know what is going on at the school and in the community around them. I liked that almost all of the sites gave me an address and map for where the school was. My Junior High school had the most useful information. Out of all of the schools that I looked up, it seemed to be the one that was updated the most. I couldn't really seeing me using this for my specific classroom, but I could see it being useful for my school to have one.