Thing 23
Whew! I made it! At one point I thought that I would have to drop out of the course because I just had too many other professional commitments, but fortunately I was able to make up a whole lot of ground over the last four weeks. I’m so happy that I was able to finish because doing each “thing” gave me some good ideas for activities to use next school year, and now I have time to play around with some of the tools we learned about over the summer.
We explored some really wonderful tools, but I think that my favorite activities were finding photos on Flickr and creating a slideshow in Bubbleshare. There are so many beautiful photos on Flickr, and I found better photos on that site than I expected. Putting them into a Bubbleshare slideshow was so easy, and it really helped my students envision the setting of a novel that we are studying. So of course I will continue to use both of those sites again.
I also plan on creating a class wiki space and linking it to the class blog that I currently have. My best and most unexpected find was from Thing 22, where I found some great discussions on Classroom 2.0 and Ning in Education. I will definitely go back to those sites, and I think that I will actively participate in some of the discussion groups.
My absolute favorite part of this class was that NO PAPER was involved! I have a nasty habit of creating towering stacks of paper piles, and doing everything on the computer really saved my sanity!
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