Thing #8

I used the Spell with Flickr app to spell out Alpha Gam. These mashups could be a good way to decorate your classroom, and to help children make words. It shows them that they can make words from multiple sources of letters. By doing this you can have some fun with your students when they are learning how to spell.  You could make name signs for your students for their desk, instead of just giving them boring name tags. I have a hard time myself writing bubble letters, and making my letters huge and pretty at the same time.  I personally don't mind sharing photos online, but not all photos need to be uploaded onto the internet. Very personal photos that show off inappropriate areas of your body need to stay personal and not public.

Thing #7

Technology class, a photo by maryannswaney93 on Flickr.

My photo is of Prof. Wall when she is talking and explaining to us about her trip to Guatemala. I thought I would be sneaky and take this picture to surprise her when she is looking through our blogs. There is a possibility that I might use Flickr for my classroom and personal photos. When I was looking around Flickr I could just about find anything I wanted to on there. I could possibly find some really good photos on there that would deal with what ever lesson I was teaching at the time. The only other site that I have used that reminds of Flickr is Instagram. They are a little different in some ways, but I use Instagram more right now but that might be changing soon. I really don't mind having my photos for the public to see, I post pictures on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all of the time. As long as I don't think the picture I post is degrading or makes me feel bad of myself I am okay with it being posted for people to see. 

Thing #6

The site that I decided to explore was Pinterest. I would be lying if I said that I had no idea what Pinterest was. I am ADDICTED to Pinterest, I have an app on my iPhone and my iPad for it and I am constantly on it. I have over 50 boards on it with at least a 100 or so pins on each board. My boards range from clothes to ideas for my classroom. What I like about this tool is that I can find anything and everything I want on Pinterest, one of the things that I don't like about it is that if you really want to buy something that you find, but the link that is connected with it has expired. The thing about Pinterest is that you have to be invited by someone who already has a Pinterest. I know a lot of teachers that use Pinterest to help them find ideas for the classroom that deal with organizing their room, worksheets, or little projects to do with their students. I will defiantly being using this for my classroom, and for other reasons in my life.

Here is the link for Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/

Thing #5

School 2.0 is the future of education when it comes to technology. So many kids now a days know how to work a computer by the time they are 5, I didn't learn how to use the computer until I was in elementary school. I really only used to get on the computer at school to take AR quizzes, and to play games on it. In school today kids are constantly using computers to do stuff that deal with school or for personal reasons. School 2.0 uses a lot educational techniques that we have known for awhile and incorporates it to now to advance our education further. As teachers we are going to have to teach our students how to properly use technology because that  is the future. If the students don't know how to work technology they are really not going to make it far in life when it is their time to get a job. Technology surrounds us everywhere.

Thing #4

Commenting helps create a sense of community and interaction on blogs by allowing discussion between the people who read the blog.  One thing that I found important when I was reading about commenting was that we have to teach our children how to comment about things. If you read something on a blog that you like, comment about it and talk about it with that blogger. Another thing is remembering the power of our words, sometimes people comment and they are harsh and rude. I honestly believe if you have nothing nice to say don't say it at all. If it is just a careless thing that is okay to write, but when you want to be rude and cruel that is just unnecessary. One more thing is you have to be careful of what you write, I know people make mistakes but sometimes they can be huge ones. People judge you on what you write, and how your sentences are structured. That is one thing that us teachers need to be good on is our grammar skills, if you do not have that you are doomed. 

I commented on Sherry McNeily's blog first due to her name was right below mine on the list. I commented on how she starts off her posts, because she makes it her own, and doesn't just answer the question right away. 

My next comment goes to Kristen Tallon's blog, she sits next to me and she also lives in my neighborhood so I thought I would stop by her blog. I said that I agreed with her on how to use blogs as teachers, and about how I didn't think about putting links on the blog for students to use to help them study. 

My third comment goes to Carolin McDaniel's blog, Carolin is in my math class as well as this one. I commented on her picture of the Neuschwanstein Castle she put up. I commented how my family lived in Germany before I was born, and that I hope one day I can visit that castle myself. 

My fourth comment goes to Ben Campbell's blog, he is also in my math class with me and Carolin. I commented on how I liked the quote "The world is our classroom", I agree with statement. I'm constantly learning new things in and out of the classroom.

My fifth comment goes to Autumn Kirkland, she is on the committee for Circle of Sisterhood with me. I loved how she said she uses Picasa to edit photos and give them to friends for Christmas. She gave me ideas for gifts in the future.

My sixth comment goes to the blog named Kindergarten Schmindergarten. She posted pics of her classroom right before open house and she gave a lot of organization tips on her classroom. She gave me a whole lot of ideas for the future classroom since I am a PreK-3 education major.

My seventh comment goes to the blog named 

Thing #3

There are many ways I can use a blog as a teacher, some ways could be by posting about what we did in class that day or that week. The blog would help keep the parents updated about what is going on in the classroom. It also gives the parents a chance to communicate with each other too by commenting on the post I make. It would also make it easier for me to communicate with the parents all at one time. It also would be a good place for me to put list of supplies or post pictures that I take during class for the parents to look at. 

Thing #2

I really have no previous experience of writing or reading blogs, so you could say that this is my first one but not my last one. Even though I don't read blogs, I do read a lot of books, but I am not a big writer though. I had a good experience with making this blog, it was really simple to make this blog. My name for my blog is really simple, it is just my name I couldn't really come up with a good name for it so I just used something easy to remember. My avatar reflects how much I love New York, I really just want to visit that amazing city and explore it!!