Thing #21

Thing # 21

I really enjoyed creating my video with Animoto! It was way easier than I anticipated! All I had to do was upload my pictures, pick a song and ta do...video! The hardest part was choosing what pictures I wanted to put up. I chose to make a video about my parasailing adventure over Spring Break. I might actually use this for some presentations in the future.

Thing #23

For Thing #20, our task was to learn more about you tube. Well a person could use a video from YouTube, which was created by someone else to enhance his or her own presentation, as long as they cited the creator correctly.
I will more than likely search other people's work than share my own, only because I don't conduct research often. I love that Creative Commons is free. I guess I could have my class create a work and then we could add the copyright for free by using Creative Commons.

Thing #22

I listened to a podcast called: Science Made Fun. I had many topics to choose from, but I chose to learn more about water. I decided to try out The Education Podcast Network directory since I had never heard of it before. I figured that it might be helpful. At the very least, I hoped to find a short activity for my class.
Has this Thing inspired you to create a podcast yourself or with your students? I'm not sure if I will ever take the time to make podcasts for my students. I would like to have a podcast activity in which they create a podcast though. Children like to hear themselves speak and sing. I think they would enjoy and remember creating their very own podcast.
I did not find a podcast that I might subscribe to and listen to regularly. I liked the podcast I listened to, but I won't seek to listen to more.

Thing #20

I think that YouTube is a very interesting website. I have found it very useful for presentations this semester. I like that you can find videos to make presentations more interesting. I don't like that you have to have the exact wording to find a video again. I chose to use a video clip of Global Wonders. It is a new DVD series. It just came out in 2009. It teaches children about other people's cultures and customs and encourages children to find out more about the culture's of their family, neighbors and friends. I chose to link the hello song as my video. You should check it out if I've managed to link it right!

Thing # 19

I signed up for teacher pop. Teacher pop is appealing to me because all of us have one thing in common and that is we all want to be educators. I'd like to share ideas with others and read tips and such.

Thing # 18

I do have a facebook account, but I do not feel comfortable posting that link on this blog. My profile is set to private. If you want to be my friend on facebook, look me up and make a request...

I had heard about myspace in high school and was not really interested in signing up. My friend was so excited about myspace that she created an account for me! Once I learned that many of my friends from school was on myspace, I became addicted!

Then in college, I heard about facebook. I was not interested in signing up since I already had my myspace account. Well, the same friend that I talked about earlier created a facebook account for me. Once I realized that I could easily contact my apsu friends I became addicted to facebook and rarely went back to myspace.

I think that it is harder to find people on myspace and I received a lot of spam mail and weird friends. I think that Myspace was less safe when I first began using it. I liked that only my friends or people from austin peay could look at my facebook page.

I do not feel that an educator should use facebook as a resource. I work at a summer day camp and some of my campers have found me on myspace. I am not allowed to be there friend outside of camp due to many laws...I do not think that educator's should be communicating with students on myspace or facebook. It is not necessary.