17 things......

I love, love, loved this class! I felt really out of my comfortzone at the beginning - and never thought I could have done a blog! Now, however, I am comfortable with at least 15 of the 17 things we had to do.
Lee LeFever is very good at explaining his ideas too! Not sure how much he makes for his work, but I hope he knows how easy he makes it seem for the outsider looking in!
I would recommend this class to any of my colleagues!

Thing 17...Web 2.0

After spending a significant amount of time on many different websites, I have come across a list of those sites that I find I can/will use in my classroom.
Wordle: I already use this website. We have weekly word wall words and we write them out and then use Wordle with the words.
Classtool.net: This website has Venn Diagrams, Fishbones, and flash cards.
Photobucket: I am going to use this site to make a slideshow with music and words for Meet the Teacher Night next week.
There are others that I find interesting as well...Glogster, Spokentext, Quizlet.com, Createagraph, and GLiffy.

Thing 16...Podcasts

After some doing, I figured out how to navigate this site. My kids have always downloaded music, etc from this site so all of their passwords were on it. My first reaction was why was I doing this? However, once I figured it out, I have to say it was easy.
I love Reading Rockets. We talk so much with the Gretchen Courntey iniative about the authors when reading a book (as well as in the elementary setting library) that many of the kiddos remember authors from one book to another. This way, during computer time, they can actually learn more about the author and other books that they have written!
I am on vacation in the mountains and don't have good (if any) cell reception so I will be trying iPadio when I get home.