Thing Twenty-One

http://animoto.com/play/1S7Y04woL5bPDjHX4NKv5g Well, after about three tries, finally got my video done. My daughter is my inspiration and I wanted to make a video of me and her. I enjoyed doing this because it is something that I have done in the past. I use to make video's as gifts for my friends and family. It brought back so many memories when I was looking at some of the pictures of my little girl. I cannot believe how much she has grown. I'm glad I have this video to look back on too.

Thing Eighteen

It is important that educators know how social networking works so that they can have access to different items on helping them in their classroom. I have been a facebook user for a few years and I love it. I am able to stay in contact with my family that live in Germany and with my friends from when I was still in high school. I have several of my teachers from back then as friends on my facebook page. Without them, I would not be where I am today and I consider them a real "friend". I think it would be a great classroom tool or school application.The parents' of the students in the teachers class could join the page to check what homework assignments are and what is going on in the classroom along with looking at photos of what the students are doing.

Thing Seventeen

After creating an account with Delicious and reviewing the resources, I got a good overview of social bookmarking. I searched "educational technology" and found several bookmarks related to this topic. I got to see the comments other users have posted to get their opinion on the link. I believe that this would be a wonderful tool to use for teaching. I love the fact that you can access your bookmarks from anywhere. I can't begin to count how many times I bookmarked a page on my home computer and when I got to school or a friends house I forgot what the website was that I needed to pull up.

Thing Sixteen

I chose the igoogle start page. This appealed to me because of the design. I want to teach third grade and the background look real fun to me. I will not be making this my permanent home page because I have a system that I already use at my house. I'm a little old fashioned and I have a magnetic notepad on my fridge that my husband and I can both write on. We also have cell phone that can set up reminders when needed. The online calendars would be real useful because it allows you to write as much information as you need and showing a little icon as a reminder. With a regular paper calendar, you only have a little box to work with. The to-do lists were helpful but I enjoy writing mine on paper and crossing out things as I purchase them. It seems to work better for me. These tools would be great in the classroom so that the teacher and students can eliminate clutter and stay organized. I would definitely recommend igoogle to others even though I will not use it.

Thing Fifteen

Wiki would be really popular in my family. Especially on my husbands side. I have my family (parents in Camden, Tennessee, brother in Maryland and other members in Germany) and my husband has his (parents in Adams, Tennessee, brother in Indian Mound, others in West Virginia). We all get together once a year for a family reunion. Wiki would be a great tool for all of us to use to decide who is bring what food to our reunion. It would also be great to plan meals for Christmas and Thanksgiving. I love making a list on things that I need but I usually end up losing them before I can buy my items. I believe that I will be using wiki next week for our Thanksgiving at moms!

Thing Fourteen

I chose bubbl.us to try as my mind map. I love it! This would be a great learning tool for children when they are working on assignments. It is easy to use and I enjoyed doing it. The other tool I chose was flowchart.com. I picked a family tree, which was an already made chart, that I believe students would enjoy doing. It is important to know your family history. For example, I know I am asked about my family's medical history every time I go to the doctor.

Thing Thirteen

Zoho Writer is not for me. It was hard for me to understand and locate buttons that I am use to on Microsoft programs. I was trying to save my file on Zoho and could not figure out how to same it on my jump drive. I somehow saved it somewhere and cannot find it. Google is the better of the two in my opinion. Something that I like about it is that the whole class can have one login and each student can have their own input on the page whether they are in class or not. This would be great to use for a group project. The link below is what I created on the google drawing. https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1IWQQyX_Ag-rZY2d0pH_-5NqePV68-mXuEM3PkBHHH0Y/edit