Thing 21

The animoto thing wouldn't let me take pictures or video's from my computer, it had an error everytime. I tried to figure out why my computer wouldn't let it take it. It still would be cool for someone putting together a little video or picture segment for others.

Summarizing the 23 things

Well, I have learned a lot about computer and internet technology. Many of the items were difficult to understand and actually work through. Some were fun to make and some were nice to have. Certain blog sites would be good to have to help you learn and talk with others in your field. I know that most of you know that I love golf and am changing my career to something in golf. I thought I wanted to be a teacher, but that came second to my first love of golf. I will probably get to teach, but it will be teaching golf. I'm quite sure that some of the things I learned in this class will help me. You never know what schooling 0r jobs will bring you. Dr. Wall, it was quite the experience, thanks a lot and yes I did learn quite a few things.

Thing 23

There are other things out there that help you learn, this could be one that the 23 things came from. Like teach 42 things. You can go through this blog site and help yourself to learning more educational technology type of things.

Thing 22

I liked the Educational Podcast. It was easy to use and it had many History podcast's within it. I listened to the Colonization of Africa episode 102 and found the information to be enlightening. Actually the podcast in this site had many I could listen to at times I wanted to know more about history around the world.

Thing 20

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eagles+take+it+easy&aq=2 This is why I like Youtube. It's for the music. All kinds of music but especially the 70's popular music. Really get you back in the past.3:34Added to
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Take it easy-Eagles with lyrics

Thing 19

Well I joined another technological wonder of the internet. (TeacherPop) Left a comment and tried to put my picture in it. Don't think it worked very well. Also, tried to make a Ning badge. Interesting little social network thing. Good little site for educators to visit and get information.

Thing 18

I joined Myspace today. http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home I guess this is my link. If not sorry don't know how to get it. I have been thinking about getting one for some time to network and talk with old friends from the past. It seemed easy enough to get the thing started. Put in a little data about myself, not sure anyone would care to be my friend or see my name on this site. I think either Myspace or facebook would benefit educators interested in keeping up with other friends in education or networking with other educators.

Thing 17

Using bookmarks and tagging are great tools to help you get to items you have decided are important to refer to. You can lump them into categories that make sense to you when you need information about that subject. delicious does seem to be fairly easy to navigate. Teachers could use this for their own application as well as the professional use. I'm not sure in golf, I'm going to need to use this type of technology.

Thing 16

I liked the igoogle home page. I could put what ever I wanted to see and get daily information on. I liked putting on golf and having the weather on this site along with my favorite music and jokes of the day. Plus you can put your own calendar on as well to ensure you don't forget things for that day and upcoming events in the near future. Cool things to have.

Thing 15

Wiki's are good for information and information gathering. You just have to watch out for the person that has put information on a site and it's their thinking not the correct information. If you had a wiki that was just for your group and you knew who was putting information on the site, then this could be interesting information.

Thing 14

I looked at Gliffy Flowchart and Bubbl.us for the mind map. I liked the way you could actually build a classroom with Gliffy, or just use it for different educational flowcharts. Easy to use and you can pull realy world looking items to put into your class, building, or house. The mind map that I started putting together actually looked kind of like a flowchart, but enhanced. You can put a chart or map together with your lesson or a subject that you want to show how you can make connections to other related fields. Pretty good stuff.

Thing 13

Zoho Writer is ok, but unless you are into high technological applications you can just use your normal Word document to do your writings. Seems simple enough for the writing portion, but trying to export things, I'm not sure how those things work. You would need to really get into it to understand it. Didn't really know that those type of applications were available for use. http://writer.zoho.com/index.do

Thing 12

Getting Google Alerts would be nice to have to get information on certain items of interest. I started this account today to check on golf information. I also started the Picasa web albums. http://picasaweb.google.com/home. Don't have much any it yet, but I can see as I go through the days I might want to put certain pictures in there. I'm not sure I will have anyone that wants to share with me. The Google Alerts can help people with news, web pages, blog posts, videos, new posts, and a combination of all of these. The calendar could help someone keep on task on a daily basis. This could help a teacher keep things together and not forget important dates and times. Even students could use this effectively. I'm sure many teachers would like to use the alerts to help them keep track of new developments in their respective fields. I'm not so sure about the notebook option. Don't think I would use this for anything in my life.

Thing ll

I went a head and subscribed to Bloglines. This seemed one of the easiest to find blogs or just find out information about different things. I actually subscribed in the RSS THING. But, I could use the site as well as any. I couldn't get to Feedster for some reason. The easiest on the new ones was Syndica8.com, I could find what ever I wanted to on this site. I could find out about things in sports which I like doing and in education like 2.0. The Topix.net didn't work very well and the Google Blog seemed to take me all over the place. Couldn't really navigate that well. So Google Blog was the most confusing for me. If you are a showbiz or Hollywood junky, I guess that Technorati would be your site.

Thing 10

This was definately different. Too many sites to choose from. I did finally select five I thought would be of use to me at this time. Things like ESPN.com; National Geo news: Animals and nature; Coolcat teacher; Diigo. If you like to get updated daily on changes around the world or in some subject your interested in this is the way to go. Personally it could keep you up to date daily. You could also do this in the school system. Looking for updates on subjects, classroom information, and standards. Students could us this system as well to get updated on interesting things for kids. If the students was given a task to complete he/she might have this new information on a blog site they selected. Other than that, it's still very difficult for me to navigate in these sites.

Thing 9

This site was a little difficult. The picture always would put a (pr) on the end no matter what I tried to to write. Still, if the kinks could be cleaned up the students would love it to make posters and different computer projects. My kids would have fun making things with this site.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi61bPnh0eGQKo2Xgmqk7MGxoZog79VaKv8nRSViamsJGq08TGvdRxTw8JFsRs_H37JzxwbmKIFs40sgAxUrud6fHM3GKWL9VsEln4hCaLY9tcPesgUxwokGU-gAMp-b3T9SXTMeyIHd7II/s1600-h/samp0489c0a6caa20S

Thing 8

This would be a cool mashup for many military people, they could post pictures for every place they have travelled. Then they could send to friends and family. Very cool site. In the classroom the multicultural demographic could be used to show where students are from or where they have travelled. In geography, this site could assist many with great pictures.

http://www.mypicsmap.com/explore

Thing 7

Flickr has some neat pictures, but it was very hard for me to get images. Even though there were pictures all over the place about golf, I found a lot of pictures in and around my golf pictures that had nothing to do with golf. I'm trying to figure out why that is. I could see a lot of folks being able to access this site for many different pictorial ideas.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/229/525463526_d1d43a08d9_t.jpg

Thing 7

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Flickr has some neat pictures, but it was very hard for me to get images. Even though there were pictures all over the place about golf, I found a lot of pictures in and around my golf pictures that had nothing to do with golf. I'm trying to figure out why that is. I could see a lot of folks being able to access this site for many different pictorial ideas.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/229/525463526_d1d43a08d9_t.jpg

Thing Six

Good afternoon, I finally found site that was right up my alley. (oobgolf) This is a neat site. I didn't realize you could do things like this. I don't know if there are any other golfers in the class, but I thought this was pretty good. This site is a free site to sign up for and this site will do quite a bit for the avid golfer. It keeps track of your scores and you can input them in by either computer or cell phone. So you can be out at the links and input your stats while your still out there. This system will keep up with your stats and you can check on how your doing at any time. If you have friends that you play with all the time, you can add them or have them join in. Then you can create a group of people and keep all their stats together, almost like a league or something. You can access information about golf equipment and this site will connect you to sites that sell equipment and give you the best deals around the country. Most golfers like to keep up with their handicap and this site does that for you. It has a formula already in for the courses you play. The information is there and then gives you the outcome. This site can keep up with your stats like, fairways hit, greens in regulation, putts per round or hole, and sand saves. You can see how others are doing and you can check out the ratings of other courses that you might want to play. The last interesting thing is that you can blog with other golfers about events of the week or just about anything you want to talk about. I think this is the neatest site I've seen for this type of stuff. You can get there by going to www.oobgolf.com.

Thing five

Howdy again, School 2.0. Interesting extension of the web 2.0. This concept can help many in the education field. If you don't know something or you are trying to find information on a subject, guess what, you can possibly find it in the education blogs. As all of you smart educators know, that we don't just learn at school, bet everywhere we go, and everything we do. Having school types of nets and blogs can assist many of the teachers and students to learn more about their profession. I like the concept that we have places to go to talk with many different people all over the world about education or anything we want. Educators can share their ideas and information to as many as would want it. The one thing that I would worry about would be a concept or idea that might not be sound, that might be used by someone that is new to the system. The reason I state this is because you have all sorts of people that get on these sites and some know some stuff and some don't. So be careful. What is so cool about this system is that, we are all busy and can't always stick around to talk about things, but many get some time at home to get on the net to talk and discuss ideas. This is a great way to help each other in certain groups. Like a group at a high school, or educators in a city, or in the state, you get my drift. Possibilities for the future are very similar to what is happening now. Use by teachers to get information about education, use by teachers to get in touch with other educators about reforms and other subject matter. Use by students to learn and understand what is right and what is wrong about matters of education. Who knows what else is possible in the future. My mind can't expand too much more. I'm coming from a time of using manual typewriters.

Thing four

Guys I'm trying, this old man is starting to learn a little about this technology stuff. It was very interesting reading other classmates blogs. One, you find a little bit about that person in their writing. People will tell you much about themselves in writing form. Things people wouldn't tell you face-to-face they will tell you on the net. Two, you get information about other technological processes that you haven't done yet. This can help you find other ways to do different things on the net. I'm not saying that it's that easy yet, but at least I can find out how to do other things by accessing the blogs that have been written and have that type of data on them. Thanks, classmates.

Thing three

Well, here I am again struggling to figure out how all this works. I have finally figured out how to post my blogs, but it still doesn't look like the others on our 5540 page in D2L. I registered Thursday and my name is on the list, but things still don't seem correct. I'm sure when I finally get to talk with someone who knows or the instructor I'll figure it out. It will probably be something easy. I just hope that I'm putting in information on these blogs that are suppose to be on them, my thoughts.

Thing one

Going through the 71/2 habits of a life long learner I noticed that many of those items are used during our lifetimes without really thinking about it. The first item of goals is one that I feel many people forget to do. I remember during my time in the Army, I had to have goals or I wouldn't have gotten through what I was trying to accomplish. Same thing for my education. You must have a goal in mind or you can get derailed quite easily. I would say that the hardest habit for me would be number 4. Just having confidence in myself that I can attain this goal and many others at this time of my life. It has been about 25 years since I went to college and as you get older you do lose some confidence in your ability to learn. The easiest habit probably would be number 2. Excepting responsibility for my own learning is the mainstay of my philosophy. I would never put it on someone else the reason I couldn't learn something. The question is did I try and use all forms of learning to accomplish the learning objective.

Thing two

Well, I'm having issues with figuring out how to find my blogs and get them to the class 5540. I started it in class, but did not finish the "thing one". At home I started again and redid "thing one", but now I can't figure out how to get these items to my Diigo page. I guess this is what happens when you start doing this new technology type stuff. Going through and making the blog wasn't an issue, it's doing something with it afterwards. Who to get it to, etc.