Sweet Memories

Sweet Memories

SUMMERY OF AWESOME-NESS

In my own opinion, I think that this section of our education course furthered our knowledge with all the technological applications available. Yes, we all "hear and understand" what our teachers say but we never put them to use. Having had to do the APSU 23 Things made us complete and follow along everything that Dr. Wall assigned us. Apsu 23 Things helped us understand and comprehend everything that could help us as educators. I like this better, compared to livetext, because with this we can say and look at things that interested us in our on personal nature rather than in an educators view. For students to learn, educators need to make things more appealing to them and more interesting. The APSU 23 Things made it appealing to all of us that are learning to be educators but this project let us learn everything that would help educating others on a fun basis. Dr. Wall, this is the one class I have honestly looked forward to in a long time and I am so glad I chose this course. You have made it very interesting, fun, entertaining, appealing, and so many other adjectives! This class, as a whole, really helped me learn, yet understand, how I, as a future educator, can make History more fun and have my students look forward to coming to my class and actually learning. Thank you for everything you have done!!

Thing 23

During the midterm part of the Education course, we had to provide a slide shoe presentation about the creative commons website. Since I think this thing and the assigned project are the same, I have provided a link to the presentation I produced for the first part of this course.
https://c1.livetext.com/doc/5537713/27064652
hopefully this link will lead you to the powerpoint I provided for the midterm project for our education course. This link provides everything that this "thing" is wanting answered.

Thing 22

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/elvis-presley/id261570160

Hopefully the link above leads you to the podcast I selected to listen to. I searched the apple podcasts and have been hooked since our class was having to create our own for livetext. I have downloaded a billion podcasts since Dr. Wall assigning the project. They are so neat and you can drive to Kentucky and learn a complete language on the way there from having podcasts on your ipod. How cool!! I think finding podcasts on the apple store are easier and more clear when compared to other search engines for podcasts. If people do not have ipods they can still download the apple store for their computer. Podcast are completely awesome and further the knowledge for anyone that wants to. Teachers can use these in their classrooms by producing a podcast at the beginning of each 9 weeks that explains the subject matter and the assignments that are to be graded upon. These podacsts should be available for the students as well as the parents. Podcasts will probably help children with their grades and homework assignments when more schools began to use such things that are so technologically advanced. I think every educator with CMCSS should enroll in education technologies so they can make learning more fun and easier for the students.

Thing 19

Visit TeacherPop

I added a picture of my nephew as my profile picture because he is the most adorable human ever! I joined the teacherpop. It took a little bit longer than what I expected to get my confirmation email but other than that this was a great social networking site for all the educators. I like how teachers can post comments on what they have taught to their students or what they plan on teaching them. This will give an example to other educators on what to teach or how to teach something. I like that everyone can post ideas like we can on Diigo and it is available for everyone that is a member or follower of that site. This is a way for teachers to continuously further their technological knowledge in their subject so they can make things more easier yet more appealing for their students.

Thing 17

This thing was pretty neat and when I first viewed it I could tell it would be a great tool for educators, friends, family and so on. People can bookmark things that would help in the educational field or a specific subject matter as well as bookmark sites that are funny or what not to let friends enjoy what you have found. Social bookmarking sites can be very helpful like other social sites but in my personal opinion facebook and other similar sites are easier and more fun when compared to social bookmarking. This could have a positive use for a classroom to allow students to go to certain bookmarked sites for certain homework or project assignments. I think it would come more in handy for individual classrooms than schools and such as a whole. The other thing I did not like about this thing was you had to have a yahoo ID to sign up. I don't have one and so I had to make my own yahoo account just for this thing.

Thing 15

Okay I am sorry for all of you out there that trust wikipedia and wiki. As a history major, most of the professor tell us we are not allowed to use these websites as sources of information because you can edit them and put in false information. I did what thing 15 has asked us to do but I still feel the way I do about these sites. You can no trust them. Other people may like them and may like the fact that you can change the information. I do not like it and I choose to use other websites that I know I can trust. I'm sorry but this required thing did not change my mind. On the other hand, Dr. Wall you have gotten me hooked on so many websites that are very helpful. :)

Thing 14

Okay now this assigned thing was way confusing. When I went to view the Gliffy and the Mindmeister it was so unclear on what I was to do. Mindmeister was way more clear than Gliffy. Gliffy just had things everywhere saying "get started now, now sign up required" if you selected that it took you to a drawing page and all I did was stare at it. I messed around with it but it was still unlcear and too confusing for me. Mindmeister was a little bit more clear and went into more detail on what you can do and all the ways you can get a hold of your "mind map". I liked the Mindmeister because it was clear and easy to understand. This would be very helpful for teachers in the same grade level to discuss what they're learning about, how they're doing it, and what they are assigning. All the teachers can collaborate on what is posted to help each other out with teaching students about the subject matter and staying on course.

Thing 13 ZOHO

This was a pretty cool thing to do. I remember Dr. Wall talking about these types of things available so students wouldn't have to worry about jump drives being lost or emails not being sent. I think this is really neat and so easy to use. It will really come in handy because I am so sick and tired of sending myself emails and then spending years looking through them all to find the one I sent myself. Being able to access this from any computer is way awesome and it gives you options on how to get it without the internet. I completely loved learning about thing 13 and I plan on telling friends about it so they can save less time worrying like I will.

Thing 16

I was very interested in this thing but the more I went through it the more I began to dislike it. I chose to do the "igoogle" it seemed pretty neat and since I have a gmail account having the "igoogle" as my home page would save a lot of time (no more procrastinating) I can fix it the way I want and so many other things. As for the step 2 for thing 16 the online calenders. I signed up for the 30 boxes because the scrype was not "adding new people" or something along those lines. The 30 boxes seemed really interesting until it asked if I wanted to upload my facebook information to it. I did this and there was a processing error, I assume, and I was unable to go back to the page I was previously viewing. As for the last two steps for the completion of thing 16, I tried to make it all work out together. Maybe I'm computer illiterate or I just don't get it. The "remember the milk" has yet to send me a confirmation email ((ekk)) and the step four reminders were not compatible with my computer, I guess. Everyone I clicked on I got yet another error. And some were just confusing and I did not see why I should use it. Maybe tonight is just a bad internet night. Other than that the igoogle is way cool.

Thing 20

I am a huge Elvis Presley fan and that is the reason I chose this video. (( My fiance and I our dancing to this song at our wedding November 20, 2010 )) I love the youtube site because there are so many available videos for anyone or anything. For example there are tutorials for anyone to learn about something new, videos from past wars, music videos, and just plain hilarious videos. I think our library would benefit from youtube because the APSU library can add a link to a certain subject matter that will help the student learn in a more easy and fun way.

Thing 18

Since myspace, facebooke, tweeter and other social networks are so widely known, educators need to understand the importance of them. Teachers can start their own facebook or myspace page with the specific class they are teaching. Teachers can put up the assignments so there will be no confusion or forgetfulness over the assigned tasks. They can communicate with their students and teachers any day and anytime throuh out the day, night, or weekend. I think facebook is a way better organzied and professional site when compared to myspace. I prefer facebook over all the other social websites. Many schools, Clarksville Academy for example, have their own facebook page where students who attend now or are now alumni can become "fans" of and be updatedon how well the school is doing in sports, arts, and so on.