Is It the End or Only the Beginning?

I really liked the opportunity of doing this project and learning all the materials that were consisted in this blog. Before this I never knew how blogs were set up, or how easy they were to do. My favorite activity was the Animoto blog post. I enjoyed this a lot and I'm actually going to use this website very soon to make something for a friend of mine. I learned so many websites these past couple of months that are all about teachers and what they are doing in their classrooms, and what future teachers are going through as well. 

My classroom will most definitely be having a blog for all of my parents or fellow teachers to look at. I hope to be one of those people on Pinterest being repinned for her blog, classroom ideas, and worksheets.

Thing #23

The "23 Things" is based off of this other idea from Stephen Abram's "43 Things I (or You) Might Want To Do This Year". "23 Things" is different from "43 Things" due to "23 Things" is all about helping future teachers learn about what is out there for them to use in their classroom when time comes. Abram started 43 Things because he wanted to show people that the internet is actually a good resource and they could use it for all different kinds of reasons, not just to search for information or get on Facebook. I will incorporate using Creative Commons to teach my students about plagiarizing and to collect their materials the correct way. By giving my students the examples of what to do and what not to do will hopefully help them understand what is okay for them to do.

Thing #22

Kindergarten LiveBinder 

The titles of my binders on LiveBinders are Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade. I chose these names due to I am a Pre-K-3rd grade Education major, and that it would be easier to find items for these children to do on the internet. When I start using this in my class in the future each binder will be a certain grade and inside the tabs will be the different subjects, and the sub-tabs will be the activities. This will make it easier for the students to find stuff for them to do on the different subjects they are learning through-out the year. At the beginning of the year the binder will be empty, but throughout the year it will get bigger and bigger.

Thing #21

Twins

So I made this video of these two boys that I have been watching since they were 6 weeks old. I have watched these two boys grow up, and I decided to make a video of the pictures that I have taken of them recently. This website is super easy to work as long you already know what pictures you want to put in there, and where they are located on your computer. I really liked using this, and it can be used for many different things. I could use this for weddings, baby showers, reunions, birthdays, and so much more. I might actually be upgrading my account later on to use for future events. 

Thing #19

I am a member of so many online communities that I just lost count. Yet one of the ones that was mentioned was Flixster, I actually have an account to that one before I even started this blog post. I love Flixster due to it is a website where all my movies that I have gotten UltraViolet downloads for. I can either watch the movies on my laptop, desktop computer, or on my iPad. I have a whole variety of movies on there, ranging from Harry Potter to Hotel Transylvania. 

TeacherPop was very appealing to me, and I will definitely be using it in the future when I become a teacher to be able to communicate with other teachers like me. I honestly believe that TeacherPop is similar to Facebook in many ways, but it is only for teachers. I left post on TeacherPop, and I also commented on someone's post about what I like and think about TeacherPop.  

Thing #20

YouTube is very easy for anybody to figure out, and you can save videos you watched, see your history, and follow people. I follow many different people on YouTube so I can see what they are up to, and a lot of TV shows have pages as well so if you want to see previews on them you can look there. You can find almost anything on YouTube from music, books, shows, movies, and other things. I chose this video due to I like how the teacher had the students reenacting the Battle of Bunker Hill. The children did a good job reenacting this battle, if they were "shot" they fell to the ground and the others stayed standing.

Thing #18

Mary Ann Swaney is my name on my Twitter and Facebook, but I have only set up a link to my Facebook. I have had both of these social media's for awhile now. You can find out so much stuff on these sites, and also follow, like, or be friends so many different things. Almost everyone and everything has a Twitter or a Facebook, you will be surprise what you find on there. 

I really think that it is important for teachers to use these social media websites due to that you can read things from people all of the place, and not really know them. Also another thing is keeping in touch with parents on Facebook and Twitter, you also can post almost anything on Facebook. Twitter is a different thing, you can only type so much into one message before they tell you to delete or you have to write to statuses. 

I could see Facebook being the one more people use. I could make a group for my classroom and make it private and invite the parents of my children to it. On there I could post news, whats going on in class, and also post photos from projects we do in class. Many schools actually have groups to keep parents up to date on dates and activities that are happening in the community.