Thing 23

 I have learned a lot about Creative Commons by taking this class and I realize that copying writing is wrong. But now there is  a new way to use other peoples brilliant ideas and it is called "Fair Use".
I understand and I have found that at nearly every thing I used had the cc at the bottom of the page.

If I had to explain Creative Commons to my special education student, I would use the powerpoint that we made in class to show them all about it. I am so proud of my mastery of the Great Twenty 23 things.

Thing 22

by Summer Brown # 2

I created three educational binders. One was private for my own creative thinking it was entitled "educational". The second one was called " Fun Brain" because it was linked with a bunch of online educational games from the website. The third one was called "count" and it included videos that Count, from sesame street were in.

Thing 21

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.


(I created my Animoto video using clips and photos of me and my boyfriend.)
Antimoto is so amazing! By far my favorite "thing" on the list.  Antimoto was easy and user friendly. When I uploaded my pictures to this site it went very fast and sent me an email quick as lightening. I am huge fan of this site.  Not only can I use this for my personal life but I can also see myself using this website for educational purposes. I could take photos of students doing projects and make videos of them doing experiments. I could them incorporate a music and show the class how hard they worked on that project. It will also give them encouragement and joy.

Thing 20

YouTube

There are so many videos on YouTube. I do not have a YouTube account but I may get one when I become a teacher because some schools will not allow YouTube videos.  There are lots of educational videos on YouTube that I thought were very helpful. You can find a video just about on any subject.




I posted this video because I really can see myself showing my students this video before I assign a book report.

Thing 19

Social Networking

Teachers need to be social too! I think that  social networks are ways to stay in touch with family and friends. It is also a great place to have discussions and communicate with other teachers to build a little learning community. Having socail networks as a teacher can be a wonderful thing because it can get parents more involved. It can also be encouraging because you can talk about how good your students are. When they see their names and their photos with positive comments about them, they will be happy and excited. Social Networking could be useful for helpful student and teacher conversations.
  I am a member of Facebook, Twitter, Project Playlist and TeacherPop. I found TeacherPop very interesting and a great place to post blogs about new ideas that I am using in my future classroom or just have converations with other teachers.

Thing 18

My Facebook Page


I have had a Facebook for a few years now and I recently added Joe Jerles and the Austin Peay Gov. to my friendslist. I think that a social network such as Facebook could be a useful site for teachers because there are places to create group pages. Creating a group page on facebook could be helpful for students because they could ask the teacher questions and the teacher could answer them. Teachers could also post problems or extra credit on these pages  and parents could even be informed.

All in all there could be many useful ways that Facebook would reach students in a cool, fun, educational way. In a way Facebook could even encourage students to do there homework.

Thing 17

Delicious !

I think that social bookmarking is a great idea. I can see how the websites you discover and use could build up overtime. Using Delicious or any other socil bookmarking that uses tags and commenting is so wonderful. Staying organized and being able to see all the different websites to visit will be such a good thing for a teacher. I am so happy to have been introduced to sites like Delicious!