Thing #23: Yeah! I finally made it!

I liked just about everything! Some of it was really, really time consuming and I got a little frustrated, but it turned out alright. It was fun to set up my blog and avatar...adding pretty colors and cutsie stuff and fun names. I really enjoyed playing with mashups, Flickr color pickr, Picasa, Google tools, Mosaic maker, ya know the fun stuff.

I have finally learned some new technology that I'll be able to use personally and professionally. It'll be nice to incorporate it into my lessons and I think students will be impressed and interested. The learning doesn't end with Thing 23. I'm sticking with this and I'll keep practicing and playing with all of the Things.

Some of the Things were kind of hard to get through, but it could be due to my lack of knowledge. I found that if I took frequent breaks I was more successful.

The Common Craft videos were awesome. I would have been lost without those. I'll definitely refer to their site for future reference. Bruce's video was also excellent.

I would totally participate in another program. I feel much more computer savvy and look forward to improving upon it.

This journey through Library2play inspired Bird Girl to stretch her wings and fly confidently through the techno-universe.

Many thanks to everyone involved in this project! The entire time I was thinking to myself, "I can't believe how much work and time went into this!" and "I can't believe how they even comment on how we're doing. They must not have any time off this summer!" And I have a whole new appreciation for frogs!!! I look forward to keeping up with the goings-on at Lily Pad Playground. Thanks VWB!!!

Thing #19: Web 2.0 Awards

I wish I had more time to explore all of these sites. I’ll come back for a deeper look later, but for now I found Lulu to probably be the most useful for my students. How fun would it be to publish some of your writings? As we all know, it’s hard to motivate struggling writers so I think they might respond to being able to publish their work, even if only for themselves, especially if they can do it on the computer. Google maps and live maps would be cool for world geography. I played around with some of the others just for fun. Hair Mixer was fun! Picnik and Splashup to store and edit photos. I liked Picnik almost better than Picasa. Last for music and videos was fun to browse around in too.