Thing #20

Youtube is wonderful.  It is the best entertainment to past time.  You can search anything.  I use it a lot to find tutorials on random things I need for classes.

Thing #18

I have had a Facebook account since high school and a Twitter for a couple of months.  Facebook has become an entertainment site.  It could be use for networking.  I think that my students would be too young for a Facebook or Twitter.  Twitter could be more useful.  You can follow people that would help with professional development.   

Thing #17

Social book marking sights are an interesting concept.  I think that it would be more useful for teachers than the students.  Teachers could use this to share websites that might be useful with the lessons that they are teaching.

Thing #16

I chose to customize iGoogle.  My friend has this as her homepage and the top of it was purple and pretty.  I chose to do one but I probably would not make it a permanent homepage.  I check OneStop by habit every time I get on the computer.  I don't really like the online calendars personally.  but as a professional it has great uses.  If I was in an office stuck to a computer an online calendar with reminders would be great.  I like the to-do lists.  I mean I cannot count the times that I have left the house and forgot my purpose.  Even worse I would get home and realize I forgot to run an errand.  The calendar would probably be most useful in the classroom.

Thing #15

Before reading this, the only wiki I knew about was Wikipedia.  The first time I used Wikipedia I thought it was God's gift to students.  Wikipedia knows EVERYTHING!  Until my teachers told me that it was an unreliable source.  I never understood why until my friend edited something on Chris Brown's Wikipedia page.  Anyone can add, delete, or change something on a wiki.  Because of this, the information is not always accurate.  The perfect example is from after last year's Grammys.  When Justin Beiber did not win the Grammy for best new artists, his fans edited Esperanza Spalding's Wikipedia page.  Most of what they were saying was completely inaccurate and highly inappropriate.  Therefore, Wikipedia is a blessing and a curse for me.

The best way I could see this working in a classroom is as a book summary type of thing.  Students would post summaries of the books they read.  I think its neat because they will be writing it.  I'd rather read a book that my peer described than a book than my teacher described.  Even though both descriptions would be accurate, my peer's would probably be more interesting.

Thing #14

Flow charts make like easier! They remind me of PowerPoint presentations.  Using these helps your audience follow you as you present data.  It's easier to show a class a flowchart of the order of operations than it is to say step 1, step 2,.....
I never even heard of a mind map.  I found it very difficult to understand how to create the mind map (maybe it was just the site I was using.)  Gliffy was very easy to navigate through.  It had different templates to use like flowcharts, venn diagrams, and even floor plans.  I will probably use an organization chart to make a simply family tree.  That should be fun.   

Thing #13

I enjoyed playing around on Zoho and Google Docs. Both of the sites were amazing.  I wish I had this in high school when I had to do group projects.  Once you email documents to another party you leave whether or not they will be able to view it up to chance.  Well I have a PC what if they have a Mac, or they use something other than Microsoft Office, or they have a older version." I thought the solution was .pdf but turns out that there could be some mishaps there also.

Zoho and Google Docs allows you to create and share documents without the worry of whether or not the other parties will be able to read it.  I found both to be useful but I like Zoho better.  Honestly I only like it better because of the name.