Is it the end or only the beginning?

 I had so much fun with so many "things" it is hard for me to just pick a few lol. I really enjoyed the first few days of just setting up my blog and creating my avator, I had a great time doing it and my blog is something I use everyday and plan on continuing to use. I also really liked creating my teacherpop account. I think that website is such a great social media website and the fact that is was started at APSU is even better. It is such a great resource and I love being able to communicate with my future collauges on there. The last thing I will mention was "thing 21", which was creating the animoto video. Not only was this so easy to do, but they come out like professional videos that I think students and parents would love to watch, I plan on creating a video for each year I teach and using them to go on my blog as memory keepsakes of all my students.

This program has affected my lifelong learning goals because it made me realize that the internet can be used for so many things in everyday life and in the classroom. I plan on taking what I have learned through the 23 things programsand sharing all of these tools in some way with my students and collauges. Communicating and sharing these ideas are what the program is all about. The 21st century is all about technology, and it will only grow and continue from here. I think is is so important for all teachers to take the time to learn about each and everyone of these tools and I am so thankful that I got the chance thanks to this class.

The one thing that surprised me with this project was how easy it is if you put your mind to it and really learn the tools. I would not called myseld technology friendly at all, and was quit terrified about this class at first, but I found this class and this program to be one of the most useful classes I have tooken in the education program. I am walking away with so much knowlege about technology that I never thought I would know and can not wait to share it with my students in the future.

I honestly can not think of anything the program could do differently to make it better. I thought every "thing" gave very good directions and as long as you follow those you will do fine.

This project has gave me so many ideas for my future classroom when I become a teacher, I actually get excited everytime I think about some of the stuff I want to do. Creating videos and blogs for each student is just a couple of my ideas :) I feel so much more prepared now to teach than I did before because I gained so much knowledge about web tools that I had never even heard of before this program.

The best way to keep up with web 2.0 tools after the program is over is to keep yourself updated. Visit the websites and blogs that you did throughout the programs again. Things change over the internet all the time so keeping yourself updated is the best way to obtain knowledge about existing 2.0 tools as well as new ones that will come about in the future.