Snow by D Sharon Pruitt
Wow! I made it!
23 Things has taught me that the technology is changing so fast that if I don’t actively participate in some way or form, I will be left behind. I knew that I was novice at a lot of tools on the web, but I thought I knew enough [...]
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Thing 23 Reflection
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Thing 22 Creating your own wiki
My Wiki: Room3wikipage
I just created one page on my wiki. It was easy. I want to add mash-ups to the page using spell flickr, but I am unable to get the pictures to show up on page. I will keep working on this.
The wiki process was very easy to do. Finding things to add to [...]
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Thing 21 What is a Wiki?
Finally, I found out what wiki means. I have heard several individuals say to me and others, check my wiki. Wiki? I would think Wikipedia. Now, I know that I can create a wiki and feel a little less confused when someone says, check out my wiki.
I checked out a couple of wikis. I noticed [...]
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Thing 20 Embedding and downloading videos
Video from Seaworld Orlandos Dolphin Cove
This video was used to create interest with our reading theme titled, “That’s Amazing!”
I used Keep Vid for the next link and it was very easy to use.
videos dolphins blowing bubbles
The only problems I had creating this Thing is that I needed to activate my plugins. Thank you to T [...]
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Thing 19 Online Videos
I posted a comment on Dragonfly TVKids Do Science-Glo Germs.
Recently, we had the health department come into the classroom, and talk to students on the importance of handwashing. This video would have been a great preteaching lesson to the health department visit. I think it is kid friendly and informative.
Posting comments on a YouTube [...]
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Thing 17 Online Productivity Tools
I chose to explore Blabberize and 30 boxes. I reviewed all the choices and these were the only two that I found interesting.
Blabberize was fun to use. I uploaded a picture of a beach and had a lighthouse talking in the background. I really didn’t have a great photo to use here. So, I chose [...]
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Thing 16 Copyright and Creative Commons
As a teacher I knew about copyright and copyright rules. Copyright rules and regulations are posted throughout my building and especially next to the copier. I do pay attention to teacher idea books that I purchase to see if I can copy materials throughout the book. However, I did not know anything about creative commons [...]
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Thing 15 Itunes and Itunes U
My first podcast was from EPN, The Educational Podcast Network. I was able to listen to a podcast from a first grade boy. He wrote a story about an alien. The podcast was dated May 9, 2006. So not very current, but a nice example on how to have students compose a story and share [...]
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Thing 14 Podcasting
I have used podcasting on my classroom blog in the past, and find podcasting to be fun. I have had students sing a Christmas song, tell jokes, and tell a story on a podcast.
I enjoyed learning about others who use podcast. My favorites so far are Radio WillowWeb and Long Elementary Student Podcast. I like these two sites [...]
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