1. What are your favorite tools you now have in your personal technology toolbox? Briefly describe a particular activity that you will plan for your students using at least one of these new tools.
Stupflix for vocabulary and Google docs for a place to share information with parents and students,


2. How have you transformed your thinking about the learning that will take place in your classroom? How has your vision for your classroom changed? Are you going to need to make any changes to your classroom to accommodate the 21st Century learner?
I think the tools will allow the students to have choices and allow for better preparation for working in the future.

3. Were there any unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
I did not realize how little I knew about the Internet and about the different programs out there.

Tool 10

1.Discuss at least three things you would want to make sure your students understand about being good digital citizens.
Plagiarism and copyright laws that effect what they post and what the write as well as etiquette to prevent bullying.


2. Share at least one of the resources mentioned above or on the Ed Tech website that you plan to use instructionally.
Netsmatz Teens and common sense at Brain Pop

3. Explain briefly how you would "teach" the idea of digital citizenship to your students.
Introduce the common sense video from Brain Pop, classroom discussion followed by the Netsmrtz teen and followed by further discussion including the consequences of misuse.

4. Explain briefly how you plan to share the idea of digital citizenship with your parents. Parent letter with sites to help explain what is expected of the students.

Tool 9

Integrating technology will create motivation and prepare students for the 21st century. I liked Sir Ken's ideas and think we need to think seriously about giving those choices in the curriculum.

Tool 8

How to set up an Itunes account.


How to sync the Ipad to the computer.

Tool 7

I would like to Skype a  project with another country- preferablly one with a different monetary system than ours. I would:
1.Have students discuss the differences of the monetary systems.
2. Work out the cost of a simple meal in both monetary systems.
3. Plan a trip for a week converting the funds and creating a budget.

Tool 6

Poll everywhere is excellent for when those little Active votes don't function like you want them to and it adds the novelty of the tool. Edmodo is awesome for the students as well as teachers to keep,up with each other. Our entire campus is now on line with Edmodo as well as Skype. Google docs are being used all a cross campus and I think that students can use it on campus as well as those who have access at home.
Google. Docs has a presentation for helping students remember the rules for integers!

Tool 5

This tool (Stupeflix)allows for the creation of some fun items that I think students could use to make presentations and to create visuals.The video of my new grandson below was created there



This tool is awesome to inrtroduce a new unit and to get students anticipation up. I think students would enjoy using it as well.

Tool 4

I placed both a document and a form on Google docs and invited members of the staff on my famous to respond. The first response came very quickly and I am awaiting other responses. I think using this section of Google could help share information with students as well as being an avenue to communicate with the students homes. I also think this tool will be useful for collaboration with fellow teachers when time does not allow a face to face conversation.

Tool 3

The video below was from U-Tube and I think it would work well in a unit on probability.  Compound probability 

For fun in math class in the begining of the year, this video shows how mistakes can be made in the thinking of math!

In the tool exploration it was interesting to look at the copyright rules. Fair use and referencing are part of the masters program and there. Was little that was new. The dropbox tool is great and I could see being able to put information  into this spot for my students to use from home!

Tool 2

 The professional blogs I found interesting were ideasfortheclassroom.wordpress.com, magicalmiddleschoolmath.blogspot.com and mathalicious.com.. All three allow feeds for new and updated blogs and contain great ideas!
Also, got a Google Reader account!

well, summer school ended today and back surgery is tomorrow so I will be trying to complete these tools in the next couple of weeks. Hope everyone's summer is going well!

Well, 11.5 never got off the ground and now we are ready to start 11 things at  Spring Branch ISD.com. I am still teaching and still loving the classroom. 11things starts in another day or so on June 4. See you then!

Thing 2

Wordle vs Wordsift. I so liked Wordle! I think my students could use this in math class to create vocabulary that they would like much better than the traditional sheets or puzzles. If they are required to create definitions that are art of the poster they will be creatively creating their own vocabulary!
Glogster and Voice Thread are different enough to be appealing different students. I am not sure that all will be savvy enough to and Voice Threads and am not certain all would like the glogster but both offer collaboration that rocks!
Animoto is cool. Imagine a project that kids can take all their photos and set them to music! I can not imagine a student who wouldn't like to play with it!
Bokr! I love this - what a great way to take a report and dice it up. The kids can all make it totally their own! I think this would work for my own travel journal while out exploring on a road trip A few minutes each night to add a page? Cool!

Here we go again!

Thing 1 for 11.5 More things!
I am amazed how difficult it was to re access this blog and how long it has been since I have been here. I am looking forward to seeing if I can actual create movies and teach it to my students!

Let the fun begin!

The End of Thngs!

This has been a very detailed and sometimes overwhelming insight into what is available on the internet!


What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey? My favorite things were blogs (which I am using now for college course work!), mashups and the PODCASTS! It was cool of you to save one of the best for so close to the end!

How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals? My life long goals have not really changed since I considered myself a lifelong learner already but since my masters degree is being done on-line it is so awesome to have an idea and insight into all the things available.

Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you? Yeah, I was soooo computer illiterate and I had no idea all these different things were available . I am glad to have been introduced to RSS feeds to use in college research and all the wonderfulplaces to find things to make my classroom more interactive and to use in the Activboard flipcharts.

What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept? Not a thing I can think of - any more information would be overwhelming and you haveincluded somuch already. Maybean advanced class for those who are willing to learn more in depth items. I have enough info to keep me learningfor a longtime!

If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you choose to participate? If I have mastered( or nearly) all these I would bethrilled tolearn more or tolearnof other areas!

How would you describe your learning experience in ONE WORD or in ONE SENTENCE, so we could use your words to promote 23 Things learning activities? The Internet in 23 steps?
Now go and comment on some of the other Players' blogs?

Thing 22 : Nings

As an "older" person I have never gotten into MySpace or Facebook. I can see some value in this forum idea for the sharing of teacher related issues and curriculum and instruction sharing. I could not getinto the onelisted in the assignment for teachers butI was able to get onthe following sites which I thoughthad value:

http://education.ning.com/ which contains gadgets that rock and has relevant forums for the improvement of classroom and professional development


http://mathteachersrus.ning.com/ which is a collaboration siteformathteachers and coaches!

Thing 21: Podcasting

This was sooo much fun. I can see me using this to create things for my kids as both introductions to new units and for review prior to tests. Just adding the music is so cool -they would much rather here that than me! I found Audacity harder to use that PhotoStory and was pleased to see that photo story was so easy to use! I did have some issues getting it to download into the blog.

Blog Id:6524143606695806888Video Id:6d749396d9f8bc7d is reported evertime so I will continue to try.

Thing20 VIDEO!

Ok this looks really cool.I found things at both the video links that would be neat to have access to. TeacherTube was easier to embedded than YouTube but there were many useful videos in both places. This embedded video deals withabsolute value, a basic skill in Algebra, that I think would "catch" the kids simplyby being a different way of seeing the information.

Thing 19 Web2.0

I was amazed at all the sites that were out there for all these categories and was impressed that so many of the ones library2play had already sent us to to explore. I love del.icio.us and was excited it won for bookmarking! Flikr won for photos and yahoo!answers is a siteI use and was glad to see it made the roll!
YouTube looks great from things I have seen on other blogs but as usual Spring Branch has it blocked! I have never really gotten into My Space or Face Book and Twitter is blocked too so I still don't know what the big thing is about these socialization site.
ThenYahoo!Pipes information is blocked as are Yourminis for Widgets.

I will attempt to find time to get over onto another server or sign in again on my own internet so I can view some more of them.
LOTS OF COOL TOOLS!!

Thing 18

I am sure if Microsoft Office were unavailable to me that Open Office would be useful. All the systems in office (or maybe just the ones I us) are familiar to me in M.W.. I tried downloading two versions(English and Spanish to see if it would translate between the versions for those dual letters home but, the system wouldn't let me. I will have to do some more checking on that!

Google Docs is another matter. I can see me using it since it has a shortcut to all the other Google services I have discovered so far in this web play thing. The action toolbars and commands are very similar to M.W. and so they feel comfortable.It is also available OFFLINE so you can work on documents when you are not connected!