Wednesday, March 6, 2013

24?

My feedback is that this whole blog thing was fun during the first 12 but 13-23 we didn't have barely any time at all to work on it and it became more of a nuisance  In future classes, I suggest that the 23 things are due at the end of the year. It's a lot of work. And it takes probably at least an hour per post.

Thing 23

Creative Commons refers to copyrighting. Online it is very easy to copyright because people are constantly using photos, music, documents and all of this has to come from somewhere. The important thing is is that you have to give credit where it is due and you also have to teach your students this too.

http://resa-23things.blogspot.com/


Thing 22

Lacy's LiveBinder

The website that we're looking at is called Live Binders. I didn't have a whole lot of time to look through everything but I think that this would be a good way to submit homework and just like it says, keep a binder. You can use it somewhat as an agenda to keep up with all the work that you have to do and as a teacher, you can submit homework for students.

Thing 21

Miguel


Animoto is a site that can make videos. Only problem is, you have to pay for it. You can do a free sample but it only allows you to do 30 second videos. You can do the same thing that this program does on Windows Live Movie Maker that comes with most computers.

Thing 20

I'm very well known with Youtube. I love Youtube. This is one of my favorite videos. It's Hero By: Enrique Iglesias but it's performed by Sean Berdy. Anyone who watches the tv series Switched at Birth will know who Sean Berdy. He's deaf and does this very sentimental video in ASL (American Sign Language). 

Youtube has a lot of features. You can upload videos or watch other videos that others have posted. It also has a new feature called Wigs. Wigs is where people can post mini series. I've only watched one of them, called Blue. It was very interesting. I'm intrigued to see what else Youtube comes up with.

Thing 19

Teacher Pop is the website we had to join this time. I agree with some of the posts on there. It is a lot like a special facebook for teachers. I think that it's a lot more professional and a better way to communicate with other teachers than the informal facebook. 

I don't like this type of "teacher pop".
I am a part of a couple of online communities. I'm a part of facebook and I used to be a part of an online community called DII (dreaming in ink). This was a community that helps writers become better. I'm also about to join a community that's a roleplay that helps you become better at creative writing. It's a lot of fun. There's a lot of online communities. I think there's something for everyone out there. Then of course, there's the ones that we've had to join for this class. In a way, blogger is it's own community too.

I'm not sure if I'd use it right now but I think that Teacher Pop may be of use later on. 

Thing 18

Lacy May Jack's Facebook

I don't think that social networking is all that important for teachers to have. I almost think of it as something that teacher's shouldn't have. Not quite, but almost. Mostly because social networking can get people into trouble. You have to watch what you post, like, the pictures that people are posting of you, etc.

There's not any reason that I would say that teachers SHOULD have social networking. The only thing I can think of is if they want to stay in touch with their colleagues and students.

Twitter, I think is probably one of my top 10 worse sites ever. The only people it benefits, in my opinion, is celebrities.

I can't see any way either of these would be useful in a classroom.