Is this the beginning or is this the end?

This has been a very interesting journey through the program and I have learned a lot.  Hopefully, from some of the Things that I found useful can benefit me when I start my career as an art teacher.  During this program, I had a lot of challenges and that could be because I am rarely on a computer.  I feel like I learned more if I am in physical activities.  I especially like to work with my hands.  I really enjoyed making mosaics through the computer and it can be useful for my as an art teacher.  The Thing that I did not like so much was Facebook and Twitter.  In fact, I did not even try it because I feel like it is very misused by millions of people.  It could be very useful, but there is always someone who will take something good and turn it bad.  However, I did like Teacherpop because it is for teachers only and it is only owned by Austin Peay.  I may refer back to Teacherpop because I can find other teachers who may have ideas for lessons that I could never think of.  Now the question is:  Where do I go from here?  I may find more experience exploring the Internet.

Thing #23

    The Creative Commons is a very good website and it teaches you that a person's work may or may not be shared.  It depends on the person.  Creative Commons gives you the option to copy someone's work or edit their work to make it your own.  I think that Creative Commons is very helpful for teachers because they often want to use someone's work as a lesson for a class.    

Thing #22

Livebinders is another great way to store all of your favorite websites.  I have found many education websites and art websites and even art education.  The title of my binders are Art, Education, and Art Education!  Teachers could use Livebinders to store the websites that could be useful for their students.  Teachers could find their websites easier and give students educational online activities and games to do.  I strongly think that this could be very helpful for teachers.  The link below is to one of my newly created binders.


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Thing #21

Since I did not do Thing #18, I could not do Thing #21 because it required signing into Facebook.  My reason for not having a Facebook is in my post Thing #18.  I do not see how the website Animoto would be useful for teachers.  I did not do this Thing, but the assignment did not sound like it would be helpful for students.  I think that it could be fun to use for posting in your blog or on your Facebook page, but it doesn't seem to relate to school.  It would not be useful for me personally, but it could be useful for others.

Thing #20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkWGwY5nq7A

The above link will lead to the video that I picked from Youtube.  It is a Rascal Flatts music video.  I picked this video because they are my favorite country music band and this is one of my favorite songs.  I like Youtube.  It is very simple to find the videos that you are looking for.  If you type in the key words in the search bar it will give you accuate results.  I believe that teachers could use Youtube to let students watch an educational video that relates to a lesson in class.  When I took art appreciation three semesters ago, one of our assignments was to watch a Youtube video about the art in India.  The only thing that I don't like about Youtube is that sometimes a video will not show.  Usually, when you find a video, it will start on its own, but I have searched for some videos that did not show up at all.  I wonder if it is because the video was not posted correctly.  Otherwise, I like Youtube and I will very likely use this website to show educational videos to my future students.

Thing #19

I strongly am against social websites, but I did sign up with Teacherpop.  I felt more secure with this social website because it is only for Austin Peay State University preservice teachers or for inservice teachers who had graduated from Austin Peay.  I also felt more secure with this social website because after you sign up for an account, the administration will decide if you can become a member in this online community. I believe most socail websites do not do this and I believe that more social websites should.  Teacherpop is a social website for teachers only and with this social website, teachers can gain new ideas from each other. I am not a member of any online community, but I may refer back to Teacherpop to help me with ideas or new assignments.  I can gain new ideas from other teachers and learn more about what I should do as a new teacher.  I can only try my best in my profession so that I can help children to learn.