Thing 23

I feel encouraged to integrate more digital assignments into my curriculum. For instance, I just designed a project for my students where they create podcasts and then listen to each others. I am looking forward to starting it!

While I don't plan on using every "thing" in my particular classroom, I have definitely discovered new ways to use the web as another teaching tool for my students.

Thing 22

I created a wiki rather easily.

The main way that wikis differ from blogs is that people have the ability to add and edit on wikis. This is why I am hesitant to use them with my students. Last year, I allowed students to post on my school issued page and they answered each other questions and posted interesting links. It was great. This year however, I have turned off the posting feature as they were using it more as an e-mail page to each other and were just being silly.

Thing 21

I never realized how many different ways wikis could be used. I knew they could be edited by multiple users but I was only familiar with wikipedia.

I am still pondering the uses of a wiki in my class. I really liked the "Comparing Hemisphere" wiki. We are currently building a teacher exchange with a school in Santiago, Chile. It would be very cool to share a wiki with them. However, I teach American History, so it would be challenging to find a similar and appropriate curriculum topic for a history class in Chile.

I also liked the wikiHow as a site to use on a personal level.

Thing 20

I liked EPN because it lets you search based on grade level and subject. However, for my purposes, nothing really jumped out at me that I would want to use in my class. I subscribed to "Colonial Williamsburg" (outside the scope of my class) because I visited the 'burg this summer and really enjoyed it.

Podcast Alley was easy to browse and has A LOT of podcasts available.

Since I am such a NPR junkie, I have been using itunes to subscribe to podcasts for awhile and enjoy being able to listen to my favorite shows any time!

Thing 19

I am really excited about learning how to make a podcast. I have been thinking about how to revamp a project of mine and I think I am going to turn it into making a podcast!
I already use podcasts to listen to NPR shows.

I also checked out Mr. Langhost's 8th grade American History page and listened to some of his StudyCasts. I am toying with the idea of creating my own "studycasts" as oral reviews for my students.

Can't wait to learn how to make my own podcast!

Thing 18

Check out this SlideShare Presentation. I enjoyed looking at the various presentations and could definitely use some of them in my classes.

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Thing 17

I checked out LibraryThing because I enjoy keeping lists of books that I have read and am currently reading. I also enjoy reading people's reviews (usually after I finish reading) of books. I have been using Goodreads for awhile and I found LibraryThing to be very similar.

I also checked out Remember the Milk. The enrollment e-mail originally got stuck in my e-mail's spam filter. After I finally finished enrolling, the site seemed cool, but I am a more paper list maker so I can carry it with me during the day and when I run errands. If I used a PDA (just not that necessary for teachers in my opinion), I think the electronic reminders would be great.