One last thing! Is the the end of my blog?

What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
If I had to choose, I would have to go with animoto.  I really enjoyed making the video and adding music.  Mine came together perfect.  I used our beach vacation photos and added some surfer music. 
I also like google earth.  It was incredible.  The things that you can do and see is amazing.  I also liked groove shark.  I like choosing songs and being able to add them to your blog.


How has this program affected your lifelong learning goals?
This program has shown me that there is a lot of programs on the web that can assist you in your personal and private life.  I learned that you can put everything you like in one place so there will be no more checking a bunch of sites.  I will use the programs that I have learned here, but I think the main thing that I have learned is that when I have to do something to search the web for an easier way.
What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
I would not do anything differently.  If a web-challenged person like my self could follow, complete, and take things from this program for future use, anyone can.
How will what you have learned influence your practice as a teacher?
I will be starting a blog that i will use for my classroom.  I will have each of my students start a blog as well.  They will do some of their assignments on this blog.  I would like for it to have an web poster board like glogster.  http://www.glogster.com/
I will also start a personal blog to put out some of the opinions I have.  I would like to use it to help young men who are trying to find their way in life. 

How do you plan to keep up with new developments in web 2.0? Recommend a way that you have found to be useful.
I will check some of the shared programs like diigo http://www.diigo.com/ to see what other people are using.  I will use some of the groups that I found during this exercises like the US History teachers.  I will join them and stay posted on whats new.  I will also follow Dr. Lucks blogs/groups.  He is always finding something new.

Thing #23

One of the first things I noticed in my search for the "23 things" was that it is used by a lot of schools. I did discover that Helene Blowers in order to encourage learning and exploration, set up “23 things”—small web-based exercises to expand her staff's knowledge of Web 2.0 (plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com). Each member of her staff who completed all 23 within a certain amount of time received an MP3 player and qualified for a drawing for a laptop and other prizes.

I would use creative commons to give the original authors credit for their work. In the past I would use a picture or a article without crediting the original source. Since I am a history teacher, I will use articles from other historians and modify them to meet the needs of my class. I will also show my class the videos on creative commons.