Thing 23

Drumroll please......

I didn't think I would get to Thing 23 when I was at Thing 16. I did and I am happy I went through the struggles of completing this course. It was worth it.

I loved that I could do this course at home without showering or getting dressed for the day. Despite be frustrated at several Things along the way, I do believe several of these can be beneficial to me as an educator. I'm sure I will be collaborating with my colleagues regarding several of these Things. Staying fresh as an educator through my new discoveries will make my job a bit easier and less time consuming looking up relevant references.

I would like to attempt to keep a blog of my Health Fitness activities, so working on the blog was by far the best thing I did. I also liked working with iMovie and can see my students using this for Health Fitness projects, now that our libraries have wonderful Macs. I will also use Rollyo, google documents and Imcooked for starters.

The Common Craft videos were very entertaining and fun to learn with. I'm a very visual learner.

I was surprised I could do some of the stuff and wonder what else is "out" there that would be beneficial to me.

In one word my description of this class would be- Eye opening!

Thing 22

I went to Ning for Teachers. I found several blogs which had Health Fitness related posts. One post was discontinues and the other post was written by a substitute teacher subbing in a Physical Education class. This post had 10 tips when subbing in PE. I will add these 10 tips to my sub folder and possibly use it during my first week of school.

WOW!!! Only one more thing to go. I think I'll save it for another day when my house isn't full of workers.

Thing 21

I used Imovie because I am working at home on my mac. My bathroom is getting demolished so I didn't do a voice over. My plumber wanted to say something but I don't know how to use the "bleep" button.
I hope you enjoy this video.

Thing 20

I went to Youtube and searched learning and teaching nutrition. Fun healthy kids games video is what came up from that search that looked interesting. It talked about several interactive games for kids that included one about the food pyramid. The website is I will try to embed this into my blog.

I also searched Teachertube with the same search and wasn't impressed. It might be different given a different topic. I am really amazed by the things people can learn from youtube. I have a friend who is a beginning golfer and has watched a number of different youtube videos about different parts of the game. She has learned a lot.

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thing 19

Imcooked.com was the first one I went to and LOVED it. It is a community for video recipe sharing. I watched easy guacomole and fafetaboutitpizza. I recommend watching the later one not for the recipe but for the person in the video. I’m sure if I could get through the 10 minute video without laughing, the recipe would rock.

I was hoping I could use this for nutritional information but I didn’t find that. However, the kids could film each other with their own recipes by using our libraries flip camera.


I have the urbanspoon app on my iphone and love it but don't find any relevance to use that in a classroom setting.

After I'm done with thing 20, I'm going to look up a flounder recipe for my dinner tonight.

Thing 18

I like google docs because I can make something at school and then upload it. Over the weekend I can go to google documents at home, edit and then either print it at home or at school. No flashdive or hauling my computer around...it is just out there.

It doesn't have all the bells and whistles the word processing programs have. I've also heard it isn't totally private.

Thing 17

At first I was waaaayyyyy confused about what this Rollyo thing was. After watching Bruce's video it was perfectly clear. This is a great tool to weed out the riff raff.
Here is my link in case you want to read about Jay Cutler, the Chicago Bears Quarterback. A side note, he is diabetic.

http://www.rollyo.com/search.html?q=jay+cutler&sid=638100

having some trouble making my link HOT. Will try again.
Got it!

Sweet Thing 16

I'm still a bit perplexed about how to incorporate wikis into my daily job of a teacher

I am a Health Fitness teacher and our goal is to keep students moving and growing towards healthy fitness goals. I need to continue to learn how to use technology in ways that help me achieve that goal such as networking with other health fitness teachers.

Our State PE organization, TAHPERD, should have a wiki regarding their events or curriculum or just things "PE".

Thing one five

I enjoyed watching this video. Very insightful. These are my learners in the video and I have to find ways to incorporate their world into my environment. Just like Library 2.0, I have to be "user friendly" and "inviting".

Libraries have to keep up on a daily basis with the rapid deluge of information as it relates to their patrons and how best to relay the information to them.

Thing 14

Discovery activities:
1. Take a look at Technorati and try doing a keyword search for “School Library Learning 2.0” in Blog posts, in tags and in the Blog Directory. Are the results different?

My search on Technorati was the same; zero found for School Library Learning 2.0 under blog posts, tags and in the blog directory. Perhaps I didn’t do this one correctly.


2. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. Is anything interesting or surprising in your results?

There are lots of entertainment and gossip blogs.


3. Create a blog post for Thing #14 and express your thoughts regarding how Technorati and its features could assist you. Since you have now looked at several tools that use tagging (Technorati, de.licio.us, & Flickr), add your thoughts about the value of tagging information.

Technorati can assist me a great deal personally but I'm not sure how much it could assist me in my Health Fitness classroom. Within my Health Fitness association this would be beneficial to share ideas to keep kids moving, since the goal in Health Fitness is have moderate to vigorous activity at least 50-100% of each class. Tags such as cardio, kids health and stretching would be beneficial tags to share.

THING 13

At first I wasn't sure how to use this site in my classroom, but after watching a few tutorials I realized it can be quite beneficial to me. I liked delicious.com and diigo sites. I will use the delicious web site to better organize my Health Fitness websites. When I organize my bookmarks and tag them, I will see what others out there have tagged like mine. Hopefully, I can find useful sites to incorporate in my professional world. This type of site can help teachers find topics quickly as well as share. Sharing is good.

Thing Twelve

Well, Thing 12 has been interesting and despite me stating that I wasn't a reader in Thing 11. I did do a bit of Blog Reading and...enjoyed it.


I am looking forward to checking out some blogs and commenting on them using some of the 10 techniques such as don't criticize and interacting with other comments. I will continue to make comments on this post as time goes by.

I blog searched Houston animals and found two good blogs. The Houston Zoo blog is pretty cool.

I'll be back.

Thing 11

I am not a reader. There I said it. I like to read and do read but not for pleasure. During my down time I like to nap, garden or watch TV, that is when I have down time. I can see how the Library Thing can be a cool tool for those in the "reading" world.
I did find a group that shared my interest but I didn't check it out aggressively. I am now onto thing 12.

THING 10

I used comic strip generator, eventually. www.comicstripgenerator.com
I tried Image Chef intitally but was unable to master it.
I can use this tool in my classroom a variety of ways but see it working best with either a lesson on SEL or during a Health unit.

Thing 9

I tried four search tools in Thing 9. Google Blog, Atomic Learning, TEchnorati and Edublogs. I searched three different topics related to my field, Physical Education. Two of the search tools took me on a wild goose chase with subscribing. It was frustrating not knowing if it was me or if it was the site. So, I stopped on those two. Google Blog was by far the easiest and gave me “bang for my buck”. Still, not much on Physical Education.

Edublogs was the most confusing and I never was able to do an appropriate search because of my subscribing issues.

The first blog I found and the only one by a PE teacher, was the most interesting and potentially useful. Makes me think I should start my own. Hmmmm can I make money off of this?

I searched TAHPERD, my state PE association, and the only blogs I found there were for vendors.

This concludes my adventures for Thing 9. I’m exhausted.

THING 8

• RSS and readers are very easy to understand and manipulate.
  
• I'm going to use this technology in my personal life to keep me updated with my sports teams. I'm using this technology to access my professional websites all in one click. Instead of going to the toolbar for my professional links, everything is right there on my Google reader and best of all, up to date. I wasn't a big follower of blogs but this makes it fun as well as informative.
  
• Our colleagues can help us to keep updated on the new uses of RSS and how it can better serve us in the classroom.

Since I've taken this class, I have to say, Google has an assortment of technology to take advantage of.

Thing 7

One "thing" I did was create a Google calendar which I will use to chart and coordinate grade level teachers to supervise our morning walking club. As part of our CSHAC goals for 2010 - 2011, we are getting our school community involved with walking before school. Each grade level will supervise a month of Wednesdays and walking with our school community.

The other "thing" I did was create a Google Alert notifying me of any video regarding the Chicago Cubs. Lots of video to watch!

Again, lots of information to read more indepth. I know several of my friends that use the google docs so that is my next adventure.

THING 6

This "thing" was very fun and informational. I have used trading cards in my classroom with the students making muscled trading cards. I would like to try and use trading cards to make a poster in the upcoming year. I could also use Mosiac Maker as well for many different things such as our annual Go Texan Day, stretches for a particular muscle or of all the trading cards. One problem I did come across was trying to put text into my image on my trading card. I used the help button and tried several suggestions but still was unable to do it.

Thing 5

There is a plethora of information regarding Flickr. I feel I have just skimmed the surface. It took me several searches to find something for use in my classroom. One has to be very specific in their search. I am looking forward to playing around on Flickr after my nap. I love summers.

Thing 3

Creating a blog was a bit stressful since there are lots of directions but I managed to accomplish this task. I also created an avatar and exported it to my blog. I am ready for my refreshing cola beverage. Maybe I should have more confidence in myself as a learner.

Did I mention the Chicago BlackHawks won the Stanley Cup?

Thing 2

My easiest lifelong learning habit is playing. My hardest lifelong learning habit is confidence.