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!