One last thing...

I have enjoyed the instructional technology class with Dr. Jerles a lot.  Many of the exercises I found useful and some I will use in the classroom.  Exercises with Google earth, webquests, and mailmerge are the ones that come to mind quickly.  I found certain elements of the blog to be redundant, like making 3 different calenders for one.  It was fun to learn about some of those things, but the ones that are most interesting to me I was already doing (Facebook, You Tube, igoogle).  I may have a classroom blog in the future to help parents stay informed about what's happening.  But....at this point in life I don't have time for the rest of it, with 18 hours in the spring and 45 hours of observation facebook will probably just get checked once a week! I enjoyed most of the exercises in class and feel that the things that really relate to classroom use such as powerpoints, mailmerge and grading, and things like that are what should be focused on.  If I use some of the other things in the future like garage band podcast or a flickr account, I would be surprised!  I will use technology in a way that is meaningful to my students learning experience and hopefully I have learned enough to do that.  Thank you.

Thing #23

The creative commons attribution is at the bottom of the 23 things list, and if you click on the CC logo right about it it explains how thi information can be used. This is the statement below :

*Note: This project is loosely based upon the website 43Things (which allows you to set and track personal goals) and the Stephen Abram article titled 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006).

This is at the bottom of the 23 things list.

  This is the creative commons link

 I have a word document to teach my class about creative commons if it ever comes up and that is how I will teach them about CC.

Thing #22

Here is my binder from LiveBinder.
<div style="width:75px; height:78px; background-image:url(http://www.livebinders.com/images/binder_icon_private.gif); border:0px; margin-top:4px; background-repeat: no-repeat"> <a href="http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=693191"> <img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5047/5325473074_270e78f2cd_s.jpg" style="width:60px; height:60px; border:0px; padding:0px;margin:11px 0px 0px 13px;" /> </a> </div> <div><a href="http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=693191">Your First Binder</a><br /></div>

I really do not see myself using this in the future, sorry.

Thing #21

My Facebook pics

Ok finally something I like on this blog!!! They created this video from my facebook pics and I almost cried when I saw it!  This is a site I will use again!

Thing #20

I chose this You Tube video because I just completed an annotated reference folder on women in the Civil War, and I am creating a WebQuest on women in the Civil War and this video will be a nice link for that as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1OTIufDCww

Thing #19

Here is my link to my teacher pop badge.
<embed wmode="opaque" src="http://static.ning.com/socialnetworkmain/widgets/index/swf/badge.swf?xn_version=124632088" FlashVars="backgroundColor=0xFFFFFF&textColor=0xFF1A45&config=http%3A%2F%2Fteacherpop.ning.com%2Fmain%2Fbadge%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fxg_source%3Dbadge%26size%3Dmedium%26username%3D0umhynj6qyhl0" width="206" height="174" bgColor="#FFFFFF" scale="noscale" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"> </embed><br /><small><a href="http://teacherpop.ning.com">Visit <em>TeacherPop</em></a></small><br />

honestly I don't know what else I'm supposed to do with this! But I joined it!

I belong to Facebook and honestly that's enough for me, I really don't have time for anymore social networking sites at this point in my life.

Thing #18

Facebook is an awesome way to keep up with friends and family, as well as new contacts you make through your education classes.  I did join the Dept. of Ed. facebook page, hopefully I will not regret that (oops, did I write that!).  Here is the link to my facebook page, which is not open except to friends.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/monica.marshall.547

Thing #17

I understand how some people think this is absolutely awesome, however, I found it to be somewhat overwhelming with the amount of choices under any given tag.  I clicked on few and the seemingly endless array would take me longer to look through than just simply googling the subject I am after.  I like the Diggo site for our class, I see the merit in that, but I do not really see myself using something like delicious...maybe I'll change my mind someday.

Thing #16

I have had a homepage from igoogle for over 2 years now, I think it is the best and yes I will keep it.

I made an online calender twice already for this blog, so please excuse me but I'm not going to do it again.

The "to do list" I have no use for, I have an iphone and I can keep all that stuff on it.  Sorry this was such a boring post, but a lot of this is redundant.

Thing # 15

I will be editing this post when I find out what user name and password I'm supposed to use to get into the APSU 23 things sandbox.

Thing #14

I created a venn diagram at gliffy.com  I think it would be a pretty useful website.  Here is my document.

<img src="http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/4119649/M.png"/>

I could definitely see myself using gliffy.com in the future to aid with the creation of things to use during instruction.

I tried bubbl.us and found it a bit hard to use.  I made the document, then tried to create account to save it and it would not create an account, not impressed.

Thing #13

I created a simple document using Zoho.com and I personally was less than impressed with it.  The cursor hung about two lines below where I was typing and it made it hard to correct typing errors because I really didn't know where it was supposed to be.  Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick with good old MS Word.

Google Docs I am already using and here is one document that I had stored there already.

References

Belle Boyd. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Belle-Boyd

Blanton, D. (n.d.). Women soldiers of the civil war. Retrieved from http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-2html

Charlotte Forten. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/onlyteacher/charlotte.html

Edmonds, S. (1999). Memoirs of a soldier, nurse, and spy. New york, NY: Amulet Books.

Larson, K. C. (2004). Bound for the promised land: Harriet Tubman, portrait of an american hero. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.

Loreta Janeta Velazquez. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/loreta_janeta_velazquez.html

Malburne, M. (n.d.). Susie King Taylor: Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd united states colored troops late 1st s.c. volunteers. Retrieved from http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylorsu/summary.html

Massey, M. E. (1994). Women in the civil war. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Pryor, E. B. (1987). Clara Barton: Professional angel. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Truth, S. (1850). The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Retrieved November, 2012, from : http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html

Varon, E. R. (2005). Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Weinberg, C. R. (Editor). (2011, April 25). Elizabeth Varon discussing Women of the Civil War [Audio podcast]. Women In the Civil War. Retrieved from http://oah.org/programs/civilwar/podcast

My students could use google docs to share research information because they could be added as a group and all contribute their information to the same place for all to view.

I much prefer Google docs over what I saw on Zoho and will continue to use Google docs in the future.

Thing 12

I really liked being able to use the google calendar and translator.  The calendar I could send the URL to parents and students so they could keep up with class assignments and events.  Google translator I could use to help with ELL students and instruction. Here’s the URL to my calendar page.

https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1

Thing 11

I went on the Google blog search and for the school library 2.0 I found the original source for the 23 things.  The topix.net took me to the local news feeds from Clarksville, TN which I thought would be helpful, I currently use ClarksvilleNow.com.  The Technorati had several educational blogs that I thought was interesting and it had the easy click icon for subscription.

Thing 10

I like the way RSS works in combining the new posts from all your favorite sites into one place.  I have subscribed to several sites and receive emails from them, but I prefer this because it keeps my email account open to only what is pertinent to my daily activities.  As a teacher, I could use this for a class project for each student to find a site that makes daily post about a certain subjects and add it to our class site so everyone could go in and it read it regularly and discuss in class what is going on with that subject.  Also as a teacher I can see using this to keep up with my favorite sites to help with professional development by keeping up with current trends in education.

Thing 9

http://www.happyfacegenerator.com/

I found the happy face generator quite easy to use and it had cute options for creating cartoons.  I thought that would be something nice to share with students in the future and have them create their own cartoons as a class project relating to some subject matter.

Thing 8

I was not able to get this mashup thing to work.  I wanted to use Mappr and take a map of the U.S. and put photos (historical and current) of different places along the Oregon Trail.  Since I’m going to be a social studies teacher, I feel I could use this application to create interesting visuals to tie into lesson plans about things like the westward expansion, the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Trail of Tears, and so on.  Sorry I couldn’t get something to post for the visual.

 

Thing 7

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tacoma290/8056655546/

“Still of the morning”  Groups Seascapes and Shorelines, tags  bay, beautiful, pier, the photographer is Michael T.

Flickr seems to be an amazing website for sharing visual imagery. I used the words pier, bay, and beautiful and got this photo.  It is also listed in groups under Seascapes and Shorelines (group 373, 103).  I am almost overwhelmed by the amount of visual information you can obtain from this site, even accessing historical photos from the library of congress, which will help me since I’m going to be a social studies teacher and can use those images in power points.  Sorry I couldn't figure out how to get the actual photo to post to my entry, maybe because it was copyrighted.

Thing 6

Etsy.com is online market place for selling handmade goods that you would not be able to find in the commercial marketplace.  Things can be one-of-a-kind creations that you can order from the artist or crafter.  People can have a complete online shop for their goods on this site. The useful features of the site are that you can search for anything, you can choose by the categories listed, and they have choices for ways to shop such as for a gift for a certain occasion. For education, I think in a classroom you could set up a sight where each student had their own “shop” where they could put entries, photos, or videos of things that were of interest to them and the other students could use that to learn more about their classmates.

This is the website I used to find Etsy

http://www.cnet.com/html/ww/100/2009/winners.html

This is Etsy's website

http://www.etsy.com/

Thing 5

Web 2.0 is an awesome advance in the way the internet is used to join people as global participants in the creation and sharing of information.  For school 2.0 I see it as being so necessary to get all students literate in how to access, assimilate, and use the visual information obtainable on the web.  Since 55%+ students are already using social media, this isn’t the challenge it would have been 10 -15 years ago.  I see podcasts and skyping being useful innovations to teaching because a student can access the lesson from anywhere in the world.  With skype you could actually join classrooms with another class half way around the world and share information.  For the future of schools, I see it as our students are going to be very literate in how to obtain the information they need for any subject they are researching.  For teachers, I see it as a way to connect through blogs to share information about what works and what doesn’t.

Thing 4

I think commenting on blogs you like is way to join a community that shares your interest and concerns and is a way of joining the conversation.  Two tips I like from experienced bloggers were; be prepared for negative people to make nasty comments, and respond to comments on your blog to keep the conversation going.  I commented on 6 people from my class, but I don’t know I’m supposed to list the 2 of choice here since I haven’t got to thing 10 and 11 yet.  The six people are:  Ashley Martin, Jillian Anderson, Alexis Wyler, Jordan Swift, Mariane Spencer, and Alana Mcleroy.  The comments I chose to make were responding to things in their posts that I thought were good ideas that I would like to use myself.