An Awesome learning experience

The creation of this blog and so forth have been an awesome learning experience. I try to stay on top but there is so much that I learned and so many ways I will be able to use what I learned.

My favorite discoveries on this learning journey were finding LibraryThing and using it, learning about tagging and Del.icio.us (social bookmarking site), On-Line Image Generator, including FD Toys, Comic Strip Generator, Custom Signs Generator, Image Chef, and Generator Blog and especially creating my own blog and wiki that I plan to continue. I plan to continue learning and using what I had the opportunity to find and explore.
Web 2.0 has affected my lifelong learning goals in a very positive way, I have become more aware of what is available to teach with and use in the classroom.
An unexpected outcome of this program would be the fact that I blog, journaling was not something I enjoyed doing before and I was not open to allowing others to know what I was thinking or read what I was learning. I have found the reflection is wonderful. The Web 2.0 was awesome and a wonderful learning experience.

eBooks and Audio eBooks

The Gutenberg Project available at World EBook Fair' site is really quit unbelievable. I was able to download Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm and then explored the site - It was very interesting and offered a lot of reading for free and or for a minimal price. Poe, Edgar Allan (436) is something I think our English department would be very interested in. Possibly the use of Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome for our 6th and 7th grades, or A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1735) for our 8th grade. It seems that there would be so much information available for our reading classes. This is really interesting. eBooks and Audio eBooks

Podcasts

A podcast I made is Flotsam Audio Booktalk
Podcasts

YouTube

An excellent U Tube can be found at Download The Connected Classroom WMV versionDownload Connected Classroom MOV version
Another great You Tube can be found of Steve Dembo from the PETE and C conference. Also Will Richardson. You tube allows you to join, upload, share, view and rate video's. Some are fantastic. This was great Web 2.0 .
YouTube and a few sites

Library Thing

I went to LibraryThing and created an account. Books in my library can be found at: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/cybrariancyndi . These are books published in 2007 that I will be using for a Children's Literature class I am teaching. This is fantastic. When I put the books published in 2008 I will use the 2008 tag and I am thinking that I will be able to search for those books published in 2008 in my library. In a before school session with teachers to promote books and reading I have started another Library Thing of just the books in their library that I will be talking about at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/cwelsh

Online Applications & Tools

Zoho Writer and Google Docs (Formerly known as Writely) must be pretty much the same. I have heard positive praise about Google Docs but have not heard of Zoho Writer until now. There is so much here that can be profitable to use in the classroom.

First I made a free account in Zoho Writer .