Thing 12!

I chose to use google Calendar! I love to stay organized and this really makes staying organized and on time easy. In a classroom I could map out our day and what times I plan to do all our activities. It would also be a good way to schedule when students go to other rooms, restroom breaks, or lunch. It's a great way to organize the day with google calendar.
Next, I chose to use Google Picasa Web Albums. It is a great way to share your photos. In a classroom this would be a great tool to share class projects or field trip pictures with students or parents. It is also a great way to share pictures of ideas you used in your classroom for other teachers.

Thing 11!

I found that Technorati is the most difficult for me to use. I always end up with something I don't really want or need. Google Blog search is the easiest for me to use and I get the most useful solutions with this site. I have found most everything here. The layout even is easier for me to follow and go along with.The Topix site was fairly useful, but it was more difficult for me to use than the Google Blog Search. I think with more time this site would be really helpful. The Edublog site was a new one for me. It was neat to look at.

Thing #10

I like the idea of RSS. I is a simple way to think about how things have changed over time. Today there is a way to set up a subscription page so that you don't have to go to ten different sites to find out all the news from your favorites. Now you can subscribe on google reader and have all the updates and news from your favorite sites in one place. In the classroom, this would be a great way to organize all of your favorite technology you like to use in your classroom. It would be very helpful because time with your class is very commonly an issue. Even in my personal life, I would love to use this. It's a great and easy way to keep everything in one place and save time.

Thing 9!

Made on Image Chef.

I could use this image when my students come in the room. I think they will get excited and try to figure out the message. Who doesn't love group work?



This is another image I personalized on Image Chef. Little things like this in the classroom can make it fun!

Thing #8

My flickr mashup from Mosaic Maker!
Using this site was really fun! I loved exploring flickr and then letting this site make a collage of the pictures I liked. It was very simple to use.
In my classroom, I may look for pictures that involve what I plan for us to go over that day or maybe that week. It will give the students something to look forward to and think about. They can look at those pictures and guess what we may talk about in class.

Thing 7!

Photo by inmacor.

I really like this photo! I love flowers and I think this is just beautiful. If I could have flowers in my house all over the place all the time, I would.
Using flickr was very easy. I looked through the different seach methods and tools. I ended up getting this picture from most recent. I think the flickr site is very easy to use so you too can find really pretty pictures like the one I found. Flickr Pictures!!

Thing #6

I chose a site called Hotchalk. It was very neat to see how a site could have so much useful tools. It was clearly benefitial to students, parents, and teachers. It had links to any kind of website you could think of. I liked that you could select whether you want sites for educators, students, or parents. As a student working towards being a teacher, I found a lot of the websites under educator interesting. There were tools such as lesson plans and so much more. Overall, I really thought this site had everything a teacher could need. I also think that by looking at this site you could get an idea of the things you want to make available in your blog or at least give access to. I think I would use this site and get so much out of it for not only myself but also for parents and students.

Thing #5

"School 2.o", to me, means that the technology we have grown up with has been updated and tweaked and technolgy will continue to grow and update. Teachers who have taught for so many years have to adapt to all the new technology of today. As a teacher learning the ways of the 21st century need to keep an open mind about the changes they will one day have to learn and adapt to.  Technology has changed so much from when I was born and I can't even imagine what they will come up with next, but I know as a future teacher, I need to stay up to date with the technology as much as possible to keep up for the future. For schools today, I think that many of the teachers have so much to learn to know what the new standards are and how to address them.

Thing 4!

Blogging is a great way to communicate and interact. It is a great way to find people who share the same interests as you. It is also a way for you to share your ideas with other people.
I found important to know how to get more comments. Two tips I found useful are to make it easy to comment and be open ended. I know I will consider these tips in the future to get more comments.

I chose to comment on Jamie Leek's Jamie's 23 things, Megan Singleton's 23 things, Brittany Lowen's Lowen Education, Raleigh Scott's 23 things, and Jessica Hudson's 23 things. I chose to comment on Jamie's thing 1 because I really related to her problems she has faced with technology. I commented on Megan's thing 2 because she talked about her experience with her blog and avatar. I could relate to her post. I commented on Brittany's thing 3 because I liked her ideas about using blogging to help keep parents and students informed. I commented on Raleigh's thing 2 because like Raleigh I have never created or used a blog. I also experiences some of the same difficulties that she faced. Last, I commented on Jessica's thing 3 because I really liked her ideas about blogging. Looking at other teachers blogs can help you with problems you may face yourself as a teacher.

The two other blogs I chose that were of interst to me were The Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century because it had really good ideas about different media to use in the classroom. When it comes to being creative with technology I need all the help I can get. The second blog I chose was Wondersome Storytime. This blog had a lot of neat posts about different books and their effects on children's learning.