Runde's Room: Teacher Appreciation Jackpot!

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Web 2.0 Slideshow!

I found this and wanted to share it with whomever may still be reading these blogs!

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Final Thoughts

This has been quite a journey. I have learned so much throughout this experience. Now to answer the final questions:
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1. Favorite exercises: I loved creating this blog site. It really showed me how easy it is to use. I really want my kids to be able to blog this year! I also enjoyed learning about Flickr. What a great resource. I enjoyed learning about all of it ... but these are my favs.

2. I have always thought of myself as kind of a tech savvy person. I thought I really kept up with the "new" things happening. By taking this class I realized how much I did NOT know. I really need to make time to "play" with the new things that are continually popping up.

3. I didn't expect to like the google tools as much as I do.. especially my homepage. I thought.. well I will create it for this class. But I have actually checked it at least once a day. I love that it gives me ideas for cooking as well as keeps me up to date with what is going on in our world.

4. No ideas. I was impressed with how smooth the class went. Thanks for a great experience.

5. Yes. of course.

6. By actually playing with everything, it made me realize how easy these tools would be for my students to use. I will be bringing several of these tools to use either personally or for my class.

7. I really would like to have another course offered. I really plan on taking the time to play with things as they come available.

II. I plan on continuing to play and learn. I want to become more efficient with the tools and I want my students to be able to use these tools as well. I never thought about adding my URL to my sig. line. That is a great way to get others to get involved as well. I have subscribed to the Learning 2.0 site. I also plan on creating a class blog as well as continue my blog about things that I am learning.

Thing 23

I can not believe this is the LAST thing!!! WOW.. what a journey this has been!

Now, to answer this question: This is the quote that talks about Creative Commons.
"Learning 2.0 is a discovery learning program created by Helene Blowers and adapted by the California School Library Association and others. Content and style for Learning 2.0 - 23 Things has been borrowed and duplicated with permission, under a Creative Commons License."

I am glad they have a site that will help when using things from the internet. Sometime I get a little confused when dealing with what I can and can not use. I hope this will help me.

Thing 22

I am struggling with this "thing". I am not real sure I am into the whole podcast. I am still investigating but I am finding it hard to locate things I would use. There is not a good system for searching on the site. I have found the educational search site is probably going to be the best, especially if used by my kids. Some of the other sites had questionable titles.. Not sure about that. I have read some other blogs and I see some ideas of how they could be used educationally, like by the 2nd & 6th grade classes. That would be good. Maybe in math they could explain how to multiply 2 digit numbers. Then someone else could listen and follow the directions to see if they got the correct answer. I am brainstorming and I am not sure if these ideas would work or not. OK, I did not find anything I REALLY liked from the directories given....SO.... I "googled" free podcasts and I found a National Geographic site that has free podcasts for different topics. This I like and I can use. There is one on the history of San Antonio. I can see how this can be educational to my students. I have subscribed to the National Geographic podcasts site as well as the digital site. This will be useful in the future and I will want to know when they add new topics.

Thing 21

This is really cool... I love it! It is so simple to do. I just uploaded my pics and picked some music. I really want to know how to add my own music to this. Where do I go to get music that is ok to use in something like this??? They have made this very user friendly and I was able to publish my flick from the site to both blogger and to facebook. I can see so many ways of using this. It will be a great thing to add to our blog spot after we have completed a project. The parents will love this! My students can create their own video after taking pics. So many ideas! I can't wait!

Thing 20

I enjoy YouTube when I get a chance to sit down and view some of the things they have. I have not used it alot but I am learning. I have used it to show an excerpt from "The Tale of Two Brains" by Mark Gungor . I think you will like it as well.




I would like to be able to use video sites to show clips of relevant topics in class.I would also like to be able to post them to either our class blog or wiki. I would try to post things that would show them insight into what we are discussing at the moment or what they are going to be discussing. I would also like to post things that are just interesting or what I thought as funny. This could be a good tool to bond with them and allow them to see another side of me!



I posted a video on my wiki site as well.. check it out... Rivera's class wiki