Nickerson's Thoughts One Last Thought

I have to say that I learned quite a bit while completing the 23 Things. There are so many different websites and producs that I did not know existed. If had to list some of my favotites hay would have to be:

1. Google Lessons - I thought this was a genius way to have kids learn about history and also build on their problem solving skills at the same time.

2. Animoto - I thought that it was very interesting to upload some pictures and add music and the site puts the pictures into a slideshow and plays it to the music.

3. Podcasts - although I had heard of podcasts, I did not know what they were for. As I listened to the podcast on The Boston Tea Party, I thought to myself that this might be an interesting way to help students learn about History.

Nickerson's thoughts Thing #23

I googled web 2.0 23 things and came up with The Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg, it appears that ehy not only had 23 things but they had 43 things in total. I think that it is alot of information but as a teacher you need to know when you can use something from the internet, book or a magazine and when you need to get permission or how long you can use it.

Nickerson's Thoughts Thing #22

I have always been a fan of learning about the History of The United States. The Podcast that I listened to was a Podcast about the Boston Tea Party. This Podcast comes from the www.odeo.com, and the title of the Podcast is Matt's Today in History. I think that as a teacher it would be worthwhile to make podcasts for students, there are a few good uses for the podcast. A teacher could make a podcast to refresh students on what they have learned during the course of a week or a teaher might use a podcast if he or she is going to be absent so the students will have some sort of lesson. I actually saved the link to Matt's Today in History so that I might listen to the podcasts in the future.


http://odeo.com/episodes/23776997-MTIH-396-The-Boston-Tea-Party-1773">

Nickerson's Thoughts Thing #21

I never knew that this site Animoto even existed, I really enjoyed putting together a slideshow although I did not have ten pictures. I used all of the ones that I had available. My slideshow is pictures from when I went to London wtih APSU, in the Winter of 2007-2008. So it was only right that I used The Clash, and a great song, London Calling. Using this site was very easy and as a teacher you could have your students make a slideshow with history pictures.

Nickerson's Thoughts Thing #20

I have been using Youtube for a long time, I sometimes go to this site just to mess around and watch videos. There is so much that as a teacher you can do with this site as I have found many intersting videos about History on here. These videos would help a student understand a particular part of history. The only problem with the site that I have is sometimes you think you are going to a specific video and it goes to another video.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

Nickerson's Thoughts Thing #19

So I checked out TeacherPOP, and made myself an account. I found it really interesting that there were so many teachers on there trying to find information from other teachers as well as sharing iniformation about different websites and methods to teach students. I will be using this site for sure especially because these teachers are mostly from around Clarksville. I will be lookingfor information on teaching History and geograpy as these will be my major areas of concern. below is the link to my TeacherPOP page.


http://teacherpop.ning.com/profile/MatthewDNickerson



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Nickerson's Thoughts Thing #18

Well I have been a member of Myspace for five years now, but I have only been using Facebook for two. Both of these sites are great for networking and finding old friends and family or just being able to send a quick birthday or get well message to people. I think as a teacher this site might work well if all of your students had an account, but unless you are a Middle or High School teacher the probability of your students using these sites is very low. You could post messages giving instructions or if students had a question they could message the teacher and you would be able to answer them in real time if you kept it open an available. I think they both have two redeeming qualities, on Myspace you can personalize your page with HTML, a music player, pictures, and any text style you want, this is not offered on Facebook. Facebook on the other hand lets you know what other people are doing in real time as they post thier status.



http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=1182169245