My Thoughts On 23 Things...

      Somethings that I really enjoy learning about were the image generators! This was something fun that I learned that could really spice up my lessons! This program has really changed the way I use technology for learning! This has given me some new ways to produce lessons. Nothing really unexpected came from this, except the Creative Commons. 

 

    I dont think there could have been anything different for the program. The program is really great, I don't think there are changes needed. Now that I know all these tools exist I will be able to keep up with them. I am really excited for what is to come of these tools and the advances that will come! I will be sure to keep up with that! 

     I might decide to make a new blog. Especially when I time during this summer! I have really enjoyed blogging and I look forward to it! 

    Always,

        M.S.P. <3

Thing # 23

Creative Commons & Copyright

     This is a topic that I, as a teacher, will have to be very careful about in the classroom! I did not that much knowledge on this topic until this class. This is a topic that should be taught to students. I could break the rules and some of my students would have no idea. This will be something harder to do with elementary school, but I can still introduce them to this topic. This way they will at least have a little knowledge that this exists.

     This 23 things is a great example of the website 43 things! This is a good example of Creative Commons! The website is about goals to set for yourself to improve your life. These are perfect examples of Creative Commons! I don't know if I will use this kind of stuff when I teach but it is a great thing to know!

   
 Always,
    M.S.P. <3

Thing # 22

Live Binders

     My Live Binder folders are named:

• Arts and Crafts
• Lessons
• Cute!

     Live Binders is kind of like Pinterest but more education topics. You can have your own folders, and share them. You can take stuff from other folders and place them in your own folder! It's pretty great! These would be very useful in the classroom to keep lessons you find online. You can keep up with everything you find and always have a copy of that. You can search for anything you want that involve the lessons that you are working with! This is a good website for keeping things together and finding stuff from other teachers as well!

    Always,
       M.S.P. 

Lessons

Thing # 21

ANIMOTO

Try our video maker at Animoto.

     For this assignment we looked at Animoto. This is a website that you upload text/pictures and it turns them into a seamless video with music! This is pretty awesome! I really enjoyed this assignment. I did not enjoy that you need to pay in order to make higher resolution and longer videos. This was something really easy to do! This was really an easy process and gives a great product! Hope you enjoy  my throwback video I made! I highly suggest this website to everyone! This could be used for cute assignments in the classroom! I can't wait to incorporate this with my class!

     Always,
        M.S.P. <3

Thing # 20

Youtube

     "Eliot was born with an undeveloped lung, a heart with a hole in it and DNA that placed faulty information into each and every cell of his body. However, that could not stop the living God from proclaiming Himself through this boy who never uttered a word." 

    

     This is a video that I can't watch all the way through without tearing up. I was shown this video my senior year of high school and I still can't get it out of my head. It's a heart breaking story about a little baby boy named Eliot. The rest you will just have to watch the video. 

     I really like that I have unlimited access to almost any video I want. Some things that I don't like is the quality of some of the videos, other then that I really love Youtube. I think that Youtube is a wonderful tool that could be used in the classroom!

     Always,

         M.S.P. <3

Thing # 19

Online Community

      

      I am a member of several online communities such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and etc. There are several online websites I have joined since the beginning of this class. One that interested me on the Thing #19 was Tasty Kitchen. I love to cook and bake so when I saw these listed under other online communities I got excited! I love learning new recipes! It's a online website that lets everyone post their recipes! It's good hearing from other people who have tried! It is wonderful hearing what did and didn't work for them! 

      One thing I found interesting were the amount of cooking and baking websites that were just like Tasty Kitchen! I really enjoy it! I just love, love, love new recipes and when something else turns out great!

     Always,
         M.S.P. <3

Thing # 18

Facebook

     For this thing we are looking into social media. One thing we had to do is post a link to our Facebook page. So here is mine! Everyone look at it and love it! 

https://www.facebook.com/Maghanp?ref=tn_tnmn

     Also with this I found out that the College of Education has a Facebook group. I never knew that, so that was a pleasant surprise! 

      I think it is important for teachers to know about social network sites because teachers should always be up to date on things. We were suppose to explore these sites but I am already really familiar with Twitter and Facebook. I like everything about them, it's a great way to keep up with my family and friends. Especially old friends from high school that moved off! 

Always, 

     M.S.P. <3

Thing #17

Tags

     For this assignment we were looking into bookmarking and tags. This was not a particular favorite but it was helpful in some manner. There weren't many resources on this site that couldn't be found on another website such as google. This website wasn't much of anything special. But that's probably because it's not a popular site so it's resources are probably limited by that.

     I do not think that this would be a useful website. There are other bookmarking website that could be use and have more on them, such as Diigo. Bookmarking website could be useful for class research or just activities for the class to find websites then bookmark them on a class bookmarking page. Overall,  this could be decent tool for the class to use, but I do think that there are other popular and advanced websites that could be used in place of this.

     Always,

          M.S.P. <3

Thing # 16

Getting Organized

     For this thing we had to get organized with online tools. The one I chose was iGoogle, only because I am always using Google. It has always worked for me, so if it's not broke... Then don't fix it. I liked how I could customized everything to fit me! I picked a really cute them, but you can't really see it in the picture. I would make this something permanent, but I am currently using Google Chrome, and that has worked great with me so far! 

     

     I think that the online calendar could be very useful, but I rely more on my phone for things such as that. If I go on the computer everyday on to my iGoogle page then I probably would use that application more often. The same thing goes for the to-do list. They all mean well, but I think that they only work for certain kinds of people. Having my to-do list on my computer never really works out in my favor.

    I would definitely recommend iGoogle to everyone. I just love Google though! I think this would be ideal for someone who is constantly doing business on their computer. When I get on the computer it is usually more of a distraction then a help. But overall this is something that is very helpful! I would suggest this to everyone! It's definitely something worth checking out!

Always,

    M.S.P. <3

Thing # 15

Wiki... Wiki... What?

     So before this assignment I did not know much about Wiki's except for Wikipedia. This thing allowed me to learn a little bit more. I went on apsu23thingssandbox and was able to experience using a wiki for the first time after I understood it. I have always been told that Wiki's are bad. I find Wiki's to be very interesting, it just brings to my mind the phrase "You can't trust everything on the internet." 

     But I can see where these can take a part in the classroom. You could set up an Wiki sandbox for your class and put up practice problems. Have students challenge each other, or try and create other ways of solving problems. This will allow students and the teacher to see how the other students are working. It's perfect! This would be a great learning tool, or just a good introduction to learning about computer technologies!

     Always,

         M.S.P. <3

Thing # 14

     For this "thing" I created accounts for bubble.us and Flowchart.com. I played around with these applications and created several different kinds of flowcharts and mind maps. These were very customizable from what they say to what color the boxes are. These types of charts can be used for anything! There were so many tools to create these. I took awhile to get them down pat, but after that it was easy!

     This is a mind map I made about the types of money. Since in this class my ideal classroom is second grade math, money is something that my students and I will be dealing with together! I really enjoyed this activity. These are fun little tools to help give a new twist to learning. Physically being able to see the relations between items would help students understand. No matter the subject!

              Always,
                   M.S.P. <3

Thing #13

     For this assignment, we had to look into other websites with online tools. Such as Zoho and Google Docs. These websites are a lot like Microsoft word except they are online applications. I explored a little through Zoho and I found that it is also a lot like Microsoft word. The presentations are the same layout (which made it easy to use, because I was use to that kind of layout.) You can also make presentations, word documents, and other things that would be needed in a office setting!

     As for using Google Docs, this was also the same as Microsoft word, except they had a thing for drawing online. This was pretty cool, you can make just about anything you want with it. For this assignment we needed to create a picture, so I drew a picture of myself. This was a fun little activity! Hope you enjoy my picture!

     Overall, I think I prefer Google Docs more just honestly because it is google. I know these can me a great tool in the classroom because instead of having kids go out and buy software, you can just go to one of these websites completely free. This is a wonderful tool to have for students to be able to create presentations and papers for free!

                                                Always,

                                                        M.S.P. <3 

Thing # 12

Google Is No Longer Just A Search Engine

     Google is no longer just a search engine. You can just do about anything with google. There is google scholar, drive, calendar, google plus, and so much more. With the advancement of google, you can do just about anything with it. I honestly think that there is no other search engines that compares with Google. 

      One of the products that I played around with was google translate. Google translate is pretty awesome. It will convert any language you want into any other language. I chose to translate a quote from english to Italian. Why? Because I can and I thought it was cool. You can also get it to read aloud the sentence so you can learn pronunciation. This is a good tool that could be used in the classroom in foreign language classes or for personal use!

     Another great tool that I explored was Google Calendar! This is a online planner that can be accessed from anywhere at anytime. You can also sync calendar events from your phone to google calendar and it will send you a email or a reminder whenever you want to. So it is like your very own personal assistant. This will be good for anyone (including teachers) to make sure you know when things are due and when you are suppose to be somewhere at whatever time. You can also share this will co-workers or parents if you wanted to get them involved more with students and the classroom! I really liked this feature and plan on using it more!

This gives you a little idea of what it looks like.

Syncing Calendar with iPhone

     Hope you enjoyed this and that you will also go and explore everything that Google has to offer! Bye!!!!

                        Always,

                            M.S.P. <3 

Thing # 11

Picking Up Good Feeds

     Using Google Blog Search was the easiest search tool for me. Just because google is familiar to me, so I knew how to work with it. I think that Topix was the most confusing search out of all them for me to use. I did not like to format that was used, but overall the search websites that I used were all good in finding information that I needed. 

      One way I found to locate news feeds to follow was when I registered for my account one helpful thing that I found was that it suggested a lot of categories for me to follow. So I got to look through categories of things that I like and looked at specific things in that topic. 

    The easiest way I find to look for feeds is too use google blogs search. This gives a large variety of what I want. Some useful feeds I found were edublogs.org, socialmediaexplorer.com, and mrssmoke.onsugar.com. All of these websites have very beneficial information and advice for my future job as a teacher. A unusual website I came across were homeschoolshare.com. The part it took me too was talking about how to clean a hippopotamus. I found this quite amusing and also very random. Hope you enjoyed this post!! Keep reading them! :)

                        Always,

                             M.S.P. <3

Thing # 10

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Reader

    So I learned a new trick!!! I really like this! This saves me so much time when I go and check all my websites. I also never knew what that button was used for, guess you learn something new everyday! This is such a valuable tool! It is also so simple, and it surprises me that I never knew what or how to do this. The thing that I love the most is that this brings the information straight to me, rather then me going to each website to check if there has been anything new put up. Everything is at your reader home!

     This benefits educators and anyone else who gets information for other websites because it saves time! For teachers, this time you save could be used to grade, make lesson plans, or just to spend on yourself. The fact... RSS makes getting information that you need more convent. This also allows you to subscribe to other pages to get information. So this opens up your  All you need is a reader account and you are good to go! Hope you enjoyed this! Look into it, it is such a great tool!



                        Always,

                             M.S.P. <3

Thing # 9

     I found this image generator to be quite fun! I went to hetemeel.com. They had a lot of pictures to chose from but I chose this one. I thought it would be really funny.The picture was set, and I got to add my own text. I find it funny because it looks like Einstein doesn't know what he is doing. Which he is a smarty pants, so he should! 

     For the title I went to textspace.net. They had many different styles from glittery, flashy, animal prints, and so much more. I just picked the metallic because I did not think that cheetah print would go well with Einstein. 

     Online Image Generators are a creative way to add detail to lesson and power points. They are a great decorative tool to add! Other then the decoration factor, image generators could be good for helping students memorize things such as math problems, or foreign languages. I'm sure someone really crafty could think of better things to use them for, but that is all I got.

    

                     Always,

                            M.S.P. <3

Thing # 8

Maghan's Mashups

      

 

      For this assignment we got to have a little more fun with Flickr! Playing around with Flickr mashups and 3rd party tools was pretty fun. You can create some many different things with other people's photos and even your own! I created my title with other people's pictures on Flickr. That was such a easy thing to do. I just went to  metaatem.net/words/ and just typed what I wanted it to say and it chose the pictures for me! Such a easy process.

       If you do not want to use other people's photos for your 3rd party tools then you can use your own! For example... I create this "jigsaw puzzle" with one of my pictures with me and perfect, little Emily. This was such a easy and simple process. All I had to do was upload my picture bighugelabs.com. Then WALL-AAAAHH! I had a puzzle!

     I think these tools can be used in classrooms for fun activities or decoration for lesson plans/power points. These tools are such good things to have knowledge on! Just in case you do need something like this for your lesson plans. For personal use.... Well if I get really bored, I definitely know I have something to do! :) 

                          Always,

                             M.S.P. <3

Thing # 7

Flickr

    This post is all dedicated to exploring Flickr. It took quite a bit but I finally found this gorgeous photograph. I absolutely love this picture. My experience with this website and finding pictures was pretty lengthy. It was not hard, but there were just a lot of photos that I could chose from and none caught my eye. (no pun intended) I just love the detail and contrast of the photo. Out of all of the photos I found on flickr this was my favorite one. I went and looked throughout CubaGallery's photo gallery and all his pictures look just a great as this one! He has a lot of scenery and close up pictures in his gallery.

     Overall my experience with Flickr has been pretty good. I did not like the way and time it took to search for pictures only because a lot of the pictures that did pop up when I searched were not very relevant to the search keywords. Other then that, my experience with Flickr was really good. I do not think I will use it a lot in my classroom, but who knows!


                     Always,

                         M.S.P. <3

The photo was taken by: ►CubaGallery's

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/8351018629/

Thing # 6

Web 2.0 Tools

Lightt

     Part of our assignment for this was to explore the website www.go2web20.net. This website is full of tools available for everyone to use, and the best part is that a lot of them are free. Go2web20.net allows you to search for websites that interest you but are also rated very high. There are so many different tags you can look for or you could also just look around to see what you can find. Just a fair warning though... Prepare to spend hours looking on this website, because you find so many good things on here!

      The second part of the assignment is to find a website and explore it! I might just become addicted to the website I found. I have a slight obsession with photography, and this website is amazing! The best thing about it is that it is also a application that I can put on my phone. If you are familiar with Instagram then you can definitely find your way around this application. the website and application is called Lightt. It can be found at lightt.com. The application allows you to take stream less pictures and share what you see in your everyday life with anyone you want. You log in and you can see what other people put on there as well. I highly suggest looking into this website if you love taking and sharing pictures!

     I think this tool could be used in a classroom, but for rare occasions. Not as much for learning purposes, but for sharing purposes. You could create a website for the parents and share what their child has done, or share projects that they are creating, just anything really. Or especially in a art or photography class this would be a awesome application! The only thing I dislike about this is that you have to have a iPhone to download the application to take pictures. You can still browse through the website without having a iPhone.

                        Always,

                                

                             M.S.P. <3

Thing # 5

 Education 2.0

    According to Steve Hargadon, technology is the future of education. I believe this statement is completely true! In his blog, stevehargadon.com, talks about all the effects and benefits of technology. He calls it "A Explosion Of Innovation". Technology is changing the way teachers teach and students learn. The resources available to teachers and students have opened up so many doors for education. Everything is available to anyone at anytime of the day, it is a platform  for unparalleled creativity. Not only is it easier to access lesson plans and activities but it cost little to nothing. I completely agree with Steve! This means new things for schools in the future! Schools will not bet the same.

     School 2.0 means using web tools and other resources to benefit education. With all the new innovations that are happening today is making the possibilities endless for teachers! With all the information available to them they can make their lessons fun and more interactive overall encouraging students to get into the material.


                           Always,

                               M.S.P. <3

Thing # 4

Commenting & Me!

     For this assignment we are looking into commenting on blog post! 

     

      Blogging is important in the blogging community! It creates a connection between other bloggers and people! I mean really, who isn't happy when they see they got a good comment on one of their post! The interaction with bloggers also helps keep blogs up.

     In one of the post I have found, 10 Techniques to Get More Comments On Your Blog, it tells that some ways to get more comments is to be open ended, ask questions, and invite comments. I know these points sound like common sense, but they are good points to follow! Also in, Cool Cat Teacher Blog, there was a post called How to comment like a king (or queen!) It gives great advice on how to comment! They also give good tips on how to get your own blog out there. Like, if you have written about the same topic as the one you are commenting on, leave your hyperlink in your comment! Both blogs have many great ideas and post on how to give and receive blogging post!

What Blogs Did I Post On?

      One blog that I posted on Ms. Cassidy's Classroom Blog. She put up activities that the whole classroom did. One in specific that I posted on was a activity that they did with Skype. She had her students sit down in front of the computer and read to a university student. I thought that was such an awesome idea! That's a great way to get the community involved and give future teachers experience! The second blog I posted on was 5th Grade Rocks, 5TH Grade Rules! There was a cute post she made about a video by Kid President. It's called pep-talk! If y'all have not watched it, you should! There are a lot of other cute things she shared with fellow teachers, but the video was my favorite one!

Whose pages did I post on?

• Emily Sehi's blog, 23 Things!
• Thing #2

• I picked her post because she had wrote about her experience with blogs! She had created a blog for her art class before and she posted a photograph with her face morphed with a tiger! It was pretty great!

•  Jared Morris's blog, Jared Morris 23 Things 
• Thing #2

• I commented on Jared's post because we have the same experience with blogging... Which is not much not. Then he had a very good description about why his avatar looks like it does.

• Chassity Halpin's blog, Chassity Halpin's 23 Things 

• Thing #7
• I commented on her post because she has the same feelings about Flickr as I do and she probably will not use it in her classroom. Which is also the same way I feel. 

• Rachel Burkhart's blog, Rachel's 23 Things

• Thing # 7
• I commented on Rachel's because I saw a beautiful picture posted that she found on Flickr! I loved it as well! So her post definitely caught my eye!

• Ashton Blakeley's blog, Ashton Blakeley, 
• Thing #5!

• I commented on Ashton's because she had very good points on how technology is making the possibilities for education endless! She had written many good points in her blog!

     Sorry this post is lengthy! But I hope you enjoyed reading it!


                             Always,

                                   M.S.P. <3

Thing # 3

Teachers & Blogging...

  Teachers now-a-days have so many advantages with the technology. We now have the whole world in your pockets... literally. Blogging is a great way for teachers to share ideas with each others. They can post personal advice, ideas, questions, or materials. The possibilities are endless with technology.

       I was looking at the website edudemic.com. They had a list of 50 must-see teacher blogs that had been voted on by fellow teachers/peers. The blogs were absolutely amazing. On one blog, for the love of learning, I found a awesome video on anti-bullying. It was lengthy but the content was well worth the time spent watching it. This is not the only website with useful information on them. Many other teachers have blogs just like this one There is no telling how much information is placed out there on blogging websites!

How (P)interesting....

      Another blogging website that is beneficial to teachers with a lack of the crafty gene is Pinterest! They have a many different categories for everything, weddings, food, and EDUCATION! (The very best one!) This is a huge blogging website full of crafts and anything else you can think of! This is the picture book of all blogging websites! If you are wanting a crafty, fun lesson or a fun craft to go along with your lesson, this is the place for you! I plan on using pinterest a lot when I become a teacher!

                       Always,

                            

                               M.S.P. <3