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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

Thing 19

I joined the Ning network MISD 23 THINGS at the beginning of this journey. I uploaded my avitar and today I uploaded some pictures. I have personalized MY PAGE. I also copied the countdown to my blog site on blogger. I love it. Everytime I log on it is there to remind me.


View my page on 23 Thingsters


I have looked at the other social networks. I think I might like the goodreads network. I love to read so this will be a perfect source of information for me.

Thing 18

I think it is important for educators to keep up with what is going on with our kids. These are things that they are doing. We need to be able to help protect them as well as guide them. A couple of years ago I started a My Space page. I had for a couple of months and then canceled. I did not have time to keep it updated. I also have a problem putting somethings out on the internet. Today I created a Facebook account. Most of my family and some friends are using facebook so I decided to try it. I found that with facebook you do not have all the creating of pages etc. It is very simple and not alot of work. That was the problem I was having with myspace. I did not have the time to update my pages. I am not sure what educational value this has. I am not sure that I would give this account to my students, especially if I have a blog or wiki. Visit my facebook site.

Thing 17

As I have said before, I took the intel course this summer. One of the first things they made us do was create a social bookmarking account. We had several to check out and I chose to create one in delicious. WOW!! I have had my account for 1 month... AND I love it! It makes sense and it is so easy to use. I can definitely see advantages to this personally. I think about all the times that I have written down different URLs that I have looked at and then been working on a different computer. I love that it does not matter what computer I am on.. all of bookmarks are right there. I can also choose to make them private or public. I like having the choice to share or not.
I think this will be a great resource for researching. I can mark sites and then they can see what sites I have. This would save time. I think it would also be good for each school library to have its own account. Sites can be marked for teachers and some for students. It can be for books, research, lessons, etc. I feel like this could really help us find educational resources online.

Thing 16

I had already set up my home page with google. Today I added some widgets to it that will help me, such as a to do list,gmail , my notebook and stickies. By adding these things to my page, I will continue to use it because I have made it useful. I also have already started my calendar through google. I enjoy the fact that it will email me my schedule in the morning. It will also email and text me(yes on my cell phone) reminders of events. I LOVE THIS! There is one thing that is bothersome..It is showing my primary email as my gmail account. I really want my reminders to come to my school address. Is there anyway to fix this?

I checked out the to do lists online. I signed up with Remember the milk. It works with the google tools like gmail and calendar. Your lists show up in gmail and it integrates your tasks with your calendar in google. I can see how this will be very useful for me personally.

Ok. I have signed up for My stickies but since I use Firefox and Safari, I have to use a plug in for it to work. It is more trouble I am thinking. The idea is awesome, being able to sticky a page from the web and it be there when you get back! I am going to continue checking for this so I can use it and I can show my kids how to use it. This will be a great thing when we are doing projects.

Thing 15

I went to the 23 things wiki site. It was pretty easy to use. I posted about my plans to use blogging in my classroom. I am not sure if I would use a wiki. Maybe if I wanted my kids to brainstorm some ideas for a topic in class. I could create the wiki and give them maybe 2-3 days to think it over and post some comments. This would get their thoughts headed in the direction of the next topic. Another idea I had was to have a homework wiki site. Where kids could go to ask questions for discuss their homework with each other. I am not sure how these would work but I would like to try to incorporate more student used technology into my curriculum.

I just created my own wiki page. I am still learning so it is very simplistic. I want to learn how to make it like the one we posted to. That might work even better for me because I have 2 classes that I teach. I am going to continue to play.

Thing 14

I used bubbl.us to create this mind map. It was not too difficult to use. I saw that you can collaborate as well. I need to play with it to see if you can export to google docs. It would be great to have a resource like this so you don't have to create it!


I created a flow chart using flowchart.com and I created one using gliffy.com. I am not sure if I like them or not. Maybe because I have been creating my own for so long, I am not use to having them premade for me. I am still playing with them so the "jury" is still out. I saw in gliffy that you should be able to bring it to you blog. I was not able to do this. Any suggestions?I didn't see anyway to bring the one from flowchart.com... Help there would be appreciated as well!

Thing 13- Zoho Writer

If I traveled a lot or used other computers other than my own, I could definitely see the benefits in using this. I have Office on my computers so I am not sure that this would be all that much better. I see that it is like google docs (it has the collaborators tool). That is definitely an advantage. I am not sure if it is any better than google docs. There are so many different websites that I am not really sure what the best site would be. It helped that I could establish my account with zoho through my google account. It looks like it has all of the features that my word processor has. It looks to be more a combination between an email (text editor) and a word processor. I think I could use this. I will play more with it, I want to see how the spreadsheets work. I am writing my blog in this document so that I can see how easy it would be to use this to post to a blog. I did it! I posted from Zoho to my blog. I really like that feature!