Thing #21 Animoto

I love this website!! Who knew you could create a video. I took my pictures from Halloween of my son and created a video. This would be great in a classroom setting. I could create a video of the kids or projects. I could do so much!! I think I am going to create another video to give to grandparents!!! I tried to find a Halloween background but couldn't oh well. I love this website!



Make your own slide show at Animoto.

Thing # 20 You, Too, Can YouTube

I love youtube!! I use youtube all the time to listen to music, look up education stuff. This website can benefit a student if they use it correctly. I used you tube last semester for education 2100. You can just type in what you are looking for and it will find it for you!! I love this website!!!

Thing #19 Beyond Facebook: Other Social Networks

TeacherPop I added a picture of me and my family and left a comment on here. I found this website to ideal for teacher blogging. I think this website is alot more appropriate than facebook when it comes to have friends when you a teacher. I a member of facebook and twitter. I really like this website a lot better!

I also like the cooking blog The Tasty Chef!!! I love to try new things with cooking since I am a wife and have a son. I like to experiment with new foods! I love this thing!! I find more and more out every time I get to a new thing!

Thing # 18 Explore Social Networking

Facebook is very important for teachers to know about the social networking. They can keep up to date of whats going on with their students and other events going on. They can tell if one of their students is having a difficult time and could talk to them but now most schools will not allow them to be friends with their students. They could always be friends with other teachers. I found facebook to be more friendlier to use than Twitter. I found twitter hard to opperate. I am against twitter and do not wish to use it again. I found facebook to have the most useful features than twitter. I would say you could use it to a certain extent in classroom but that is it.

Thing #17 Tagging and Social Bookmarking with Delicious

This website I found to be very helpful on finding other stuff. This wesbite can be accessed anywhere. You can be at work and be able to get onto this website to find that bookmark that you saw. The wibsite allows you to see all the work you have done, so if your  computer crashes then you have the work you worked online. The teachers can use this to save their work and share their work with other teachers. Those teachers may need help find out what to do on a lesson plan. They can go this website to help them along. I could use this tool when I become a teacher to help me out in the classroom. The different tags can help me narrow down what I need for my research.

Thing #16 Get Organized with Wed 2.0 Tools

Getting organized is a very good name this thing. I created the calender with Goodle and fell in love! This is a much easier way to keep track of everything going on with my life! I found the set up to be very easy and to create a to do list. I decied to choose IGoogle for my start up page. This was very simple to set up! The calender will help get organized. It would be great to use in the classroom. The kids can keep up with what projects and when homework is due. I would recommend the calendar over everything else. I am a big fan now!!

Thing #15 What in the world is a Wiki?

WIKI would bea great tool for collaboration in classroom! A teacher can have their students turn in assignments done in a Wiki. I did not know much about Wiki until now. Most of my professors tell us to avoid wikipedia and do not use it. I found it to be very interseting and would be great in the classroom. There are alot of great ideas listed on the 23 things. It is pretty awesome about the Library Wiki. There were tons of ideas!! The sandbox was pretty awesome! Who knew you could do all of that.....not me!

Thing #14 Go with the Flow

After I recieved my account with http://flowchart.com/ I love love this website!!! I used this flow chart to help me organize a paper that I had to write. I used the family tree tool so I could put my main topic and branch off from that main idea to write about. Some times you get stuck and dont know what to do next. I had the option to put images or change the colors. This system is very easy to use!! I found the ind maps not that great. I was knid of confusing for me. I wouldn't recommend those websites but I would definitely recomment flow chart.

Thing #13 Web-based Applications

I found the website https://www.zoho.com/ (Zoho) pretty awesome!! I did not know you could create word documents. I always thought you had to have microsoft word processor to create a document. My brother does not have a licenses for microsoft word processor and now I am going to tell him about it. I am so excited about this website!!

At google docs is another pretty awesome website! I created this simple document about how I feel about google docs. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y6GHnjAhrE8A_30J1uDJxjLjSujboPPdFdB6jR6LKoE/edit

The kids would benfit form these website. Some students may not own a licenses to microsoft word processor. This is an awesome wedsbite for them to create a document and share it with the teacher, other classmates, or parents.

I really enjoyed both websites. I dont think I could choose just one because I feel in love with both websites!