The Intensity Nears

Graduation is creeping upon me, and I find myself looking toward my future endeavors. Fall semester is going to be intense with studies, plotting a course for my future, and taking on new responsibilities on  campus. I find this all exciting yet intimidating as anything new can be.

One Last Thing

Hallelujah. Strike up the band it is over! My favorite part of the 23 things is that it is over. Okay, so there were a couple other things I liked. The Live Binder and Animoto these were the things that really caught my eye. It has been a long road and I am sure there were other thing I liked. However, as usual at the end of a semester you like to see things come to a close. I will take the blogging with me to a classroom but not at a personal thing. I think it will be a wonderful addition to a class website. 

Thing #23

Creative Commons the APSU 23 Things is licensed under  "some rights reserved" .  Creative Commons tells you what you can and can not to do with the 23 Things. You may share it and alter it, but you MUST give credit to the author and may not distribute the work. Creative Commons is a way to allow someone to use you work if you wish and at the same time securing it for being plagiarized. As a teacher I will use Creative commons for my self and at time suggest or require students to do the same. It is a very interesting and useful concept.

Thing #22

WOW! The Live Binders are really neat. I liked the way you could load your own information or have it automatically load, I think it is a great idea for students. It is a good way to give them a stack of electronic information to go through. If you were wanting the students to write on certain subjects you could create a binder and give them the password. I think these was a wonderful thing.

Thing #21

This is a pretty cool tool. I can see future uses for this. It takes your old boring pictures and turns them into a work of art. It would be a great tool for a classroom blog. It was simple to use nothing mind bending (which no one needs at finals time. hehe). This is one 2.0 tool that I could actually see myself paying to upgrade. Well done oh 2.0 guru.

Thing #20 You Tube

I like YouTube there is a lot of good things and some not so good. I would use YouTube in my classroom. I picked the video "Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration" because I really like history and my most recent history professor showed it in class. Music is the way to my heart so, anything that will teach through the use of music is okay in my book. Another site TeacherTube it is really cool because it has a lot of educational videos and school house rock things. 

Thing #19

I think Social networks can be a dangerous thing in the wrong hands. I have a Facebook account but I keep it very guarded. I am from a Las Vegas where you don't trust anyone or they may steal the shirt right off your back. So, okay I have trust issues (haha) but seriously I am very careful of who I add to my Facebook you never know what they might say and the last thing I need is a bad reputation with a principle over something I didn't do. Now something I like is IMDB have you ever sat there watching a movie thinking "who is that" until it makes you crazier then you already are. So, go to IMDB and look up the movie and wa-la there it is that person whose name is making you crazy. Go forth and conquer (really you gotta check it out).