Thing 22

LiveBinders is a helpful tool that teachers can use to keep track of their lesson plans along with websites that they plan to use in the classroom. It was very easy to make the binders and I like how it helps with organization.  Staying organized is very important because it also helps with time consumption.  If you already have everything nice and neat and organized, then it reduces the amount of time you will spend on your lesson plan or the purpose for your classroom needs.

The titles of my binders are: Math, Grammar, and SPED (Special Education)

Here is the link to my Grammar Binder.
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1188640

Final Thing

This overall experience has been amazing!! I have learned so much about all the different cites that I can benefit from while I teach and for my personal use as well.  Being a teacher you are so busy and anything that is going to help me save time, I am willing to try it out and hopefully use.  Things like social bookmarking, using Google Calendar, Delicious, Ustart, and Remember the Milk will all help me in my future as a teacher. 
The Flickr activity and creating the mosaic through bighugelabs.com was my all time favorite! I love scrapbooking and photography so being able to play with and work on two of my hobbies is just awesome. 
This class has been so much fun and I have learned a lot.  I don't think I would change anything.  The use of 2.0 has been very easy to understand and follow.  This is a highly effective tool that is going to advance as technology advances.  All these activities we easy to do because they were so hands-on.
This class by far has been my favorite class to take at APSU. I have enjoyed my teacher, my classmates, and the assignments as well.

Thing 23

Wow, almost done! Thing 23 is now here.

For Thing 23 I am to find an example that shows the Learning 2.0-23 Things for Teachers is someone else's work..
Here is my example....
http://k12learning20.wikispaces.com/23Things 
and also this
http://plcmcl2-about.blogspot.com/
which led me to this
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

So, how will I use Creative Commons licensing in the future as a teacher?

Whenever I need to share my works such as presentations, or PowerPoints, or any type of creative work that I don't mind other using, I will need to use this.  Also whenever I want to use something that someone else has created, I need to make sure that it is allowed for me to use. My students will need to respect those creative minds as well and as long as we have permission to use whatever it is that we need for our projects, then it is safe to use and we will not be stealing it.

Thing 21

This link is to the video I created at Animoto.  It is a video of different pictures of my daughter.  I absolutely love doing stuff like this and will definitely be using this for personal use that is for sure.  I can use this in the classroom as well to capture pictures of my class on field trips or even during class.  This is a neat tool that you can use for just about anything.  You can also use this if you are creating a presentation as well.  Videos like this keep peoples attention and I do not see how I will not find a use for this tool in the classroom.  I really liked this blog and completing this activity!

Hera

Thing 20

This video got my attention because the creator really used technology to his advantage.  This video contained humor but was also educational.  I thought the teacher really captured his audience's attention.  I enjoyed it and thought it was neat how he was able to edit the video of the teacher and made it look real.  I thought it was amazing how he was able to step outside of the video browser. I have never seen editing like that before. A video like this implemented into your lesson will really wow your students.  It is something that they don't see everyday and I believe any students of any age will stay focused when they watch it.   

The below link is to a cite that I explored to that I believe will be a neat tool to use in the classroom.  It is called PowToon.

http://www.powtoon.com/account/signup/

This tool turns your average PowerPoint presentations into fun and entertaining animated presentations. This will surely catch the attention of any viewer. It allows you to create videos, presentations, slideshows, and small video clips.  Any student would rather watch an animated presentation versus a PowerPoint.  This tool is fun to use and I will definitely be using this in my future classroom.

Thing 19

The best advice of social networking for educators is to definitely keep personal and business separate. You do not want to mix or intervene the two because you need a balance of work from home life.  When using social networking for education purposes use it to your advantage.  You want to use the sources to help find different lesson plans or give you ideas to assist you when teaching the curriculum.  When you find something useful share it.  Sharing is caring, so whether you share it verbally with a coworker, or "retweet", "repost", or "repin" it to the another network site, its always best to help others out. If it works for you, it may work for someone else too.  
I am a member of pinterest.  I love pinterest and recommend it others. You can find ideas on just about anything. The most recent "pin" that I found interesting was a blog titled The Top 10 Pinterest Boards for Teaching. You can find it at the link below.

http://www.growingajeweledrose.com/2013/01/top-pinterest-boards-for-teachers.html

This blog is helpful because it takes you directly to other pinterest boards that have useful educational activities that were posted by other people. I have been using the Math Activities board quite a lot for the My Quest, and I plan on continuing to use social networking sites throughout my career as a teacher.  

Thing 18

https://twitter.com/punkinstar1984

Honestly, at first I was skeptical on setting up a Twitter account because I thought it was just going to be a bunch of social media drama, but in fact it is not. There is only drama where you allow for drama so if you use Twitter to your advantage and for the right reasons, then you will gain from utilizing this tool.  Upon my search for hashtags, I was able to find some really cool and useful websites.  One such site was TeachHub, which is basically a teacher collaboration community. There are lesson plan ideas, news related to education grades K-12, and different resources that you can use in the classroom. By seeing the daily post on the Twitter feed, you are able to see what is new on the actual web page. It is important that educators keep up and are familiar with social networking because it definitely keeps them up to date on current events and resources, but it also saves time and helps with lesson planning.  Teaching the same lessons can get boring.  You need diversity to keep up with times but, also you need to be able to know more than one way to teach a lesson for those children who don't understand.