Nickerson's Thoughts Thing #7

I have a Flickr account already but I have in the past logged on to look at some of the wonderful pictures that people post on there. I had the opportunity to go to London around Christmas 2007 with Austin Peay State University, and I was able to stay in London for 2 weeks. I have seen many pictures of London, but London to me looks better gloomy than it does sunny. I loved this picture because it represents something that was really awesome to me, the Millenium Wheel and the sky was so very dark and dreary. I think that Flickr is a wonderful site for amateur photographers to post their pictures for others to critique. Navigating through Flickr is so very easy, you type in some key words of what type of pictures you want and you get page after page of pictures to view. You need to be very broad in your search though, too many words will yield very few pictures.

1. Rachel Morris 23 Things http://rachelmorris-apsuthing2.blogspot.com/2009/09/flickr-thing-7.html?showComment=1254168789752#c7234521690290082234

Nickerson's Thoughts Thing #6

So I checked out a few of the sites that were on the Education 2.0 awards list, and there was one there that I use all the time at work. Pandora is such a great site because I can put in the type of music I want to play and the site will play any music or bands that might have the same style of music. When I have my own classroom I can see how this might be of help to students, I had a teacher in High School who used to play symphony music during days we would have a test or a study day, and it would help with concentration.

Nickerson's Thoughts Thing #5

As I watched the video for School 2.0 I realized that the future of teaching is not like that of the past, standing in front of a blackboard citing dates and events. The students of today are so much more technology inclined than we were in the 80's and 90's. They have Ipods, Computers, internet, Youtube, online blogs, and video games you can play online and talk to a play other people around the world. I had a cassette player, books, magazines, and the video games I had was one dimensional, and only could have 2 players. Along with all that technology comes the difficulty in learning to use it. As a future educator and a life long learner, I have to not only be able to use this technology but also explain to my students how to use it for educational purposes. I think School 2.0 will help us break the teaching mold and show us new and more interesting ways of educating students. The future of schools is one that is going to need a lot more money to keep up with the demands of trying to keep our country online with other countries in education. I certainly hope that there is a way that money will be allocated for this endeavour.

Nickerson's Thoughts Thing #4

Being that this is only my Fourth blog I have not spent very much time in the Blogosphere. After reading a few of the required blogs, I understand why it would be proper to leave some sort of comment on what you read. The reasons for doing this might be if you agree or disagree with what you read, or you might want to add some missing information for the blogs writer. You might possibly be commenting on another comment to the blog, or just giving the writer a thumbs up or down. I don't think that a writer needs to be controversial just to have people read their blogs, I think there is enough controversy in the world already. I know my blogs are not award winning, exiting, or intellectual, but I think that by learning and spreading that information through blogs, many people might find information that they were not aware of.

1. Dorris Educates America http://dorriseducates.blogspot.com/2009/09/thing-3-classroom-blogging.html?showComment=1252616822798#c1207677651350896719

Nickersons Thoughts Thing #3

I think that a Blog could be a very useful tool in the classroom, using History as an example, after the teacher is finished with a specific chapter or lesson, the students could then Blog about what they think was the catalyst of a specific moment in history, or about possibly how the student might have retained all the information for the test, so other students might try their technique. This blog might help students that are too afraid or embarrased to approach the teacher if they are having problems in the classroom, get help from friends. I think that as a teacher if you were lucky enough to have a room full of computers you could have students at the beginning of class Blog about the question of the day, and save paper, plus the teacher would be able to give credit for completion of the blogs.

Nickerson's Thoughts Thing #2

I am not sure why I named my Blog what I did, I was thinking about "Deep thoughts" but that would be a ripoff so I just decided on what I did. I think the avatar that I created is kinda like me, he just is there with his jeans and shirt on. Creating the blog was a lot more entertaining than watching the PowerPoint slide that we had to watch in order to blog about Thing #1. I have heard so much about people blogging and I have never really Blogged before, unless you count updating my status on Facebook, which is kind of a short blog. I think it is very interesting and I plan on getting on here and hunting and pecking around to see what different ways I can tweak my blog and it's settings. As for creating the Avatar and posting it, that is a different story altogether. Once I entered the Doppleme site, I started to make my avatar, and after the first screen it asked me to sign in, which I did. When I went back to making my avatar, it would not let me sign in, because I had not copied down the generic password that it gives out, instead of just asking me to make a password. Once I figured that out and got the generic password I signed into to website again then promptly changed my password to my generic password. Making the avatar was not hard, but did require a lot of saving. Once I finished making the avatar I tried to post it to my blog unsuccessfully, I then decided to go back to the D2L page to get the directions from the source. I finally have my little creation gazing at me from my blog page now, and all is right in the world.


1. Jen's 23 Things http://jhardy23things.blogspot.com/2009/09/thing-3.html?showComment=1254167528636#c2722001463570196

Nickerson's Thoughts Thing #1

So here I am trying to come up with something intellectual and introspective about lifelong learning. I feel that I am a lifelong learner as I am always trying to learn about how to use new technology. Other times whenever there is something around my house that needs to be fixed I will research that specific problem on the Internet to find the best solution to repair the problem. I am always interested about finding out how things work, if it is something simple, I will have no problem disassembling it, other times if it is complicated such as a computer, I would just rather look at a diagram of how it works. I am currently trying to teach myself how to play guitar although as much as I want to be I am not musically inclined. I think for the most part I will always be curious about what makes things tick.