Summarizing My Thoughts!

Wow, I'm not sure that I can even begin to thing about my favorite things about this class. But I'll try! I really enjoyed the Animoto. It was so easy to create and it makes me look like I am really high tech with my friends and family!! I also liked Flickr. I'm so not a scrap booker, but I can create albums online for others to look at. Which is way better than albums sitting on my book shelf! I also enjoyed my Blog. I didn't think that I would like creating one much less "blogging", but I had fun. I can't wait to use it next year with my students.
I have so many goals for next year and the years to come with technology. I really want to do some Podcasts with books for my students and have them do some too. I want a book blog for students to share their favorite books or I could also do a Wiki page.(Don't I sound so techy??)
I was really surprised at how easy it was to create and interact with all of these sites. I was nervous at the beginning, but once I started it was pretty simple. Of course I can say that now that I have completed them! Like I already mentioned I was concerned about setting up my blog and keeping up with it, but now I'm really proud of everything I have done. I didn't think that I would learn so much. I considered myself a high tech person, but I really knew so little about what was out there! I'm still in awe of my google customized page. I love going to it and reading all my favorite subjects at one time. I was also surprised at how much time I spent "playing". I didn't take the warnings seriously!ha
The only thing you could do differently is to let the students know that it will take more than just 15 minutes a day to complete all the assignments! At least it did for me and I know some other people as well.
Of course I would love to take on another class like this!
I am going to do so many things differently than I have in the past. Of course I think that I will take things slow at first! I don't want to overwhelm my students!ha I see so many new ways to reach out to the students in an outlet that many of them enjoy. I'm hoping that more of my students will be willing to join in book discussions and publishing their writing if they are just posting it on a blog and not raising their hand in class. Those are the students that I have problems with meeting their needs because they don't let their needs known. I hope that my new found ideas will help with this problem.
I am going to keep up with the RSS feeds and of course my friends that took this same class. I have learned from other classes that I have taken if I don't use it, I lose it! So I'm going to continue learning and practicing!
Thank you for this experience. I have truly enjoyed it!