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!