I did it! I have completed 23 Things and I did it way before the deadline. Good for me. I'm usually one of those students who is waiting to the very end and has to spend the entire night before the deadline scrambling to finish my work. Not this time - this time I was focused and determined not to fall behind. I guess I had a little motivation from a friend of mine in my department. We motivated each other to finish and even used our PLC time to get things done. So what did I learn? I learned a lot and I thought I already knew a good amount of techie stuff. I mean I am a computer teacher. I should be on top of these things and for the most part I was. New to me were RSS readers, social bookmarks and podcasting. These three items I either had no clue about or never really felt the need or desire to learn more about. Out of these three my biggest delight was social bookmarking. I have My Delicious account up and running and every day since learning about it I have tagged several websites to my account. My goal is to add every site that I have bookmarked previously to my Delicious account. I know I have wasted an enormous amount of time looking for sites I once encountered but can't seem to find even with my bookmarks. Something was definitely not working for me - but that probably no longer exists. I will continue using my wiki, blogging personally and professionally, embedding videos via Slideshare, uploading photos through Flickr, being entertained through RSS feeds and sharing information through GoogleDocs. I will continue my Web 2.0 learning beyond this last post.
It's been fun to read your posts and hear your perspectives because you were already using some of these tools. We're glad you learned about some new things too.
ReplyDeleteYour Thing 14 post is not yet complete, so if you are planning to apply for SBCEUs for this course, you will have to go back and finish that one. Otherwise, you're done. Congratulations!