Things have come to an end, It is not a goodbye only see you later!!

Some of my favorite parts of the 23 Things would flicker, twitter, livebinder, Google drive, and creating my very first blog! This program of 23 Things has affected my lifelong learning goals tremendously, I now have so many wonderful resources to use as a future teacher, I can not wait to begin. I was surprised at how much I would enjoy the technology that I have came in contact with, I never thought I would like twitter but now I love it. I would not change a single thing about this program, it is a lot of content but the knowledge that I am walking away with is tremendous. What I have learned will help me become a more interactive teacher and I will be able to keep my students attention with all the cool and neat things that I have learned to use in the classroom. I plant to keep up with new developments of web 2.0 by keeping my accounts to all of the things I made accounts on like twitter, Google drive, and BLOGGER!

Thing #23

In the classroom, we are often faced with the challenge of determining when it is acceptable to copy something and how much an item [book, website, music, video, etc.] we can copy. Faced with declining budgets and little time, we are tempted to make the copies. But with the advent of file sharing, downloading, and RSS, we must acknowledge and teach the ethics of information gathering and sharing.

Creative Commons is a copyright license that allows us to choose to share our intellectual property. This course is designed under a Creative Commons license and is an example of how one can take a piece of information or a product and re-work it to make it fit your needs. By acknowledging the original authors, they have given permission for you to share. One place for good information about what's going on with the Creative Commons is Lawrence Lessig's blog. Lawrence Lessig is one of the Creative Commons developers and a Stanford University professor.

Discovery Resources:

• Online copyright comic book developed by students at Duke University Law School.
• Creative Commons website
• Get Creative - covers the basics of Creative Commons
• Wanna Work Together?
• Flickr Creative Commons Photo Pool

Discovery Exercise:

• Find an example or attribution that shows the Learning 2.0-23Things for Teachers blog was based on someone else's work and modified from its original.
• Now that you know about Creative Commons licensing, how will you use it in the future as a teacher?

This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

 

The information above, the professor that has laid out our 23 thing for Apsu,  Ms. Wall, has cited the Creative Commons website with a link to give credit to them while sharing it with us in her own context.

As a future teacher I plant to inform my students about creative commons by showing them how to give credit to people like authors and websites when I ask them to write a paper or do a project. I think it is very important to inform students about the right and wrong ways to give an author credit on their work and it is something the will use later on so it is important that they understand how serious it is.

Thing #22

LiveBinder is a wonderful website! It is like a binder of websites online, it is so very convenient to be able to save websites like this because it makes them easily accessible later when you may need it again. For my future classroom I can use LiveBinder by organizing websites that I may want to use for lesson plans. I could also use this website to save resources like the core curriculum that I am to teach, or I could save important websites like the school that I am working for or the Tennessee Education website all in one place.

This is a list of my binders on LiveBinder, feel free to explore them!!
Educational Resources I chose to make a binder of resources because I will need resources when I become a teacher. I chose the websites that I filed in this binder because I felt that they were very helpful and I know I can use them when I become a teacher to help me be an effective teacher.
Making Education Fun! I chose to make this binder because I think the best way to teach a student is by making the content fun, I chose the websites because they all gave several ideas on different subject areas with many different grade levels to choose form and I can't wait to use them in the future.
Lessons I chose to make this binder because I was taught to "beg, borrow, and steal" and I know that this binder will grow when I become a teacher because as a future teacher I will need to have lesson plans and having suggestions as well as ideas from other lessons to make my own will allow me to make my own creative lessons for specific classes.

Thing #21

If you do not have an account for Animoto you need to make one! This website will allow you to make a 30 second video, the video is made from pictures and you can upload a song to go with it or just choose one that the site already has. I found it very easy to use and I loved the experience of making a video.

This is a link below: it will take you to the video I made, its called everything blue because everything in it is blue since that is my favorite color.
Everything Blue

Thing #20

This video is called what makes great teachers? I chose it because I think that if applied to a classroom it would be very effective. I think that keeping the attention of students and making learning fun are two of the most important things a teacher can do. I really like youtube, I have found that you can find resources on anything and that is amazing. I really enjoyed finding videos about teaching I honestly had no idea nor had I ever even thought that youtube would have so many educational videos to help teacher and students. There are many things that could be very useful to teachers to utilize in their classrooms on youtube. Not only are there videos to show as lessons but there are helpful videos to help teachers become better at keeping their students engaged and interested about education.

Thing #19

I am going to start of by saying I LOVE PINTEREST, I think it is a wonderful way to share an infinite amount of ideas that could pertain to anything you could think of. Pinterest for educators provides ideas for the classroom such as; educational activities, educational technology, and educational crafts. It is a great resource for teacher to help students stay engaged and evolved in the classroom. I am a member of Pinterest and I use it at least once a week. I can definitely see myself using Pinterest when I become a teacher to find new activities, crafts, and ways to use technology in the classroom. I think it is a great resource that everyone could benefit from.

Thing #18

What do I personally think about twitter? I personally do not care for it, however after seeing the many different resources that I can follow made it much more interesting to me. Being able to read posts about how to manage a better classroom, improve my teaching ability, and being able to see the thoughts of other teachers and how see their experiences, is very enlightening to me. I did not enjoy searching hash tags I think it is an odd way to search, but I do think it is a helpful way to search specific things like education. I have never really explored twitter and now that I have, I find it much more useful. I do not see myself using it for personal use but more for a professional use to find new ways to better myself as a future teacher.

This is a link to my twitter:
https://twitter.com/KMcCarson