The End... Sort of.

This is not the end of my days as a blogger. I have loved it from the beginning of my personal blog and will do better at updating that now that I have more fun tools. I loved designing my blog and adding my own little personal touches. I have big plans for implementing blogs into my future classrooms. I think students would learn a lot and really enjoy them. It is important for students to be able to use the internet to its fullest potentials, and since I too enjoy technology so much, i could pass on so much knowledge to them! :]

Thing 23.

This picture shows that this blog is covered under the Creative Commons site. Now I will be able to use others resources and ensure to the public that I am legally allowed to use the images and sites provided. I will explain to my students while they are creating their own blogs that they need to use this image as well so that they can not get in trouble for using other peoples work.

Thing 22.

Here is the first binder I made. The binder is full of classroom ideas that are going to be great to use in my future classrooms. It is pretty cool how you can organize and keep things you find on the internet into virtual files you can add to and come back to later. However, I find Pinterest is a better site for me. It is easier to use and has so many more ideas than livebinder. I already have a whole bunch of "boards" on Pinterest inckuding a classroom idea board. Pinterest is just all around WAY better. :]

classroom ideas

Thing 21.

This video I made using Animoto is hilarious to me. I had fun making it of me and Kevin, uploading pics, and choosing the cutest song called happy which I could only hear a couple second clip of. It was called "Happy" and i thought that had to be cute. WRONG. So when I played the finished video they sent me the only lyrics played are the first two lines which make me seem like a TOTAL CREEPER. "Happy,.. Next to you,... I watch your body sleep." Then it cuts off. HAHA. Kevin's going to think I'm crazy when he watches this! :]

Other than this obvious FAIL. The website is so fun and easy to use. I would consider subscribing but hate to pay for websites. I do like the free trial service the offer though!

Make your own photo slideshow at Animoto.

Thing 20.

I love Youtube. I hope that eventually it isn't banned on most school servers. Once when I was observing the teacher and I were talking about dogs and I shopwed her this cute youtube video from my iphone of a dog. She loved the video and we decided it would be fun for the kids to write a story about Denver the dog in the video from her point of view. It was so fun and the kids loved it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ISzf2pryI.
Also, I absolutely love schoolhouse rock videos but they were first made on VCR tapes. It is so much easier to be able to access them on youtube. Here is my favorite one about No More Kings. Children retain so much information when they can sing it in song. This video always comes to my mind when I think about the Boston Tea Party.

Thing 19.

I love being a part of online communities! I joined my first one in fourth grade with my friend Julie. Julie had a neopets account and I remember being so happy when my Dad finally helped me sign up for my own account. I was so embarrassed because he made my username ECAFLUTECAT. WHY? ECA is my initials.. I just started playing flute.. and we had just gotten a cat. OMG, DAD!! Anyways, although I havent been on neopets in 10 years I was able to log in today and see all my old stuff! So embarrassing! Now I have a facebook and I dont really participate in any other ones although I used to have a myspace. I decided to try one of the sites listed and had fun making our cat, Romona, her own Fuzzster Account. She is so cool. Fuzzster is a cute website for pet lovers to connect but I doubt I will use it, it's like for the CRAZY pet people. Here is Romona's homepage. :] It's kinda cute.

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Thing 18.

Mark Zuckerburg. I LOVE this man. Thank you so much Mark for making facebook. Although I don't really think there is a place for it in the classroom but I would use it to communicate with fellow coworkers outside of school as a way to be friends without business all the time. I love staying connected to people from home in Memphis while I am here in Clarksville. Face book is just an amazing website and it is so hard to imagine life without it!

Here is a link to my personal page if you want to be friends! :]

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=509553907