I really enjoyed working with the mashups and apps. I like to experiment with anything that enhances photography. It is a lot of fun. I learned about the RSS which I will customize to suit my own needs when this course is over. I learned to blog. I always wanted to learn a bit more about it. I started a few new ones.

My life long learning goals have not been effected by this course at all. I already knew how do to most of these things to begin with. I used the more complicated software to create original works.

The 23 things is a great program for people with no graphic design skills and gives the a little knowledge. I am just surprised that we are learning this. Most schools don't allow social networking. There has been a history of teachers fired for their participation in these activities.

I can't think of any changes other than a video production project. Teach me something with a video and post it to YouTube. I think that is the cherry on the cake.

I spend a lot of time on the Internet and monitor new technologies pretty closely. I always check to see what is new with the children.

Thing #23

Creative Commons License


This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
United States License.

This means that the work was licensed under Creative Commons. The videos and links that are contained within the blog were created by other people and linked into the blog.

I used copyrighted media so much as a student that it has become a bit of a predicament for commercial development of my work. I now search for reusable media through the creative commons portal. I will eventually be creating all the media and images on my own with out the assistance of the any outside work. I may use the Creative Common licenses to allow other people to use my work. It is important to teach the students how to use this technology so they know about copyright.

Thing #22

I found and interesting podcast about the production of music technology pod casts at Edtech Musician podcast. It discussed harvesting historical sound actualities and where you could find them and gave some examples. The examples combined popular music, movie sound track, historical, and political actualities during the same historical time period.

The Always On episode Research and Information Fluency from the podcast direcory was a very interesting podcast. It discussed the need to understand the process of research and how to understand it. Research classes are usually put off until the end of an educational experience. It is most helpful when it is studied first. I could enjoy listening to these professionals discuss life with a laptop.

Learn Out Loud was a panel of experts who are discussing the use of podcasting in education.

I added the http://edtechmusician.libsyn.com RSS feed to my Google reader account. It contained a lot of interesting podcasts about relative education topics.

I really enjoyed working with educational podcast directory. It was a directory by subject and several layers deep.

Thing #19

I finally got to access Ning TeacherPop. I am a bit reluctant to use these things.

I am a member and here is my new badge.

Visit TeacherPop


I have been a member of a few social networks. They have very different characteristics. MySpace is my music business site. It contains artist profiles of people I have worked. IT is more of a public relations site for me than anything else. My FaceBook account managed to find some of my long lost best friends of my childhood. We have all moved away from our homes and live all over the country and it is a lot of fun to connect with them. My nephews are in LinkedIn. I put a profile in there. I have not accessed it in a long time. I have joined a lot of the ones listed here. I have a browser called flock that opens with links to all the networks you belong to. It seems more logical than the Google desktop. I can open flock and all my social networks are right on my desktop.

While looking for a Web site of the day I could not find anything suitable that brought together Neurological and assistive technologies so I started a blog. I put videos to start of new advances to assist the locked in and quadriplegic communicate. The blog also contains information about the hearing and visually impaired assistive technologies. It is a place where the recently handicapped can view options for assistive technologies.

I also joined last.fm. I did not do much in the sit but plant to.

Thing #18

My MySpace page is at this link run931alee . I designed this page to be a place where my listeners could check out the pages for the recording artists who performed the music I played on my radio shows. I also started to write about them on a blog.

I have been social networking for a while now and don't really think it has anything to do with education. I think there are probably educators networking with educators but I don't. I keep hearing about all the teachers getting fired for things that appear in their Web pages so I don't think I would add any teachers, or students on the pages. I have them for a particular purpose and that is all. If I did use it for education it would be for the classes to communicate. I like the blogs better for that.

My daughter has a lot of friends and has a good time networking. It really has no place in education. I use it to talk with my friends who live quite far from me. I have some pictures of family and friends. I have been neglecting it lately.

Thing #17

The bookmarking Web tools are great for saving bookmarks. You no longer have to worry about losing your favorite sites to computer problems. You can also share the bookmarks with the public or a group. Tags provide a logical process for organizing the bookmarks for easy retrieval during searches.

Bookmarking Web sites are great for gathering current information about topics relevant to coursework and providing it to the students in an efficient manner. As a choral or band director I can see it would be very useful for providing my student with music resources concerning music theory, music history and applied music instruction.

Personally, I don't like to share my information with anyone. I find it to be an intrusion to my privacy and the privacy of the students. I will not publish my lesson plans, grade books or any information about my children because it is a violation of the Family Education Rights to Privacy Act. The Web 2.0 tools provide the untalented, unskilled teacher with other people's work free of charge. Some of the tools are nice but most of it just increases the work load and takes up too much time. Not all of it is bad. It just cluttered up my computer with unnecessary junk, Trojan horses, ad ware, and malicious code. I love the news but, I have my limits.