Thing 10

RSS was very interesting, I have had a GMail Account for a while, because my dad would rather communicate through that than with my APSU email. So at least for two years now. He made our whole family one so it was to my advantage. Somehow I was already subscribed to Google Reader from the comments I put on other classmates blog posts. I subscribed to five more that I feel will interest me and I can keep up with fun exciting things! I think you could use this in your school or personal life, just like you could your blog. By your students following you through Google Reader, they can keep up with assignments and fun facts. It will help the students stay organized. By using it in your personal life, you could keep up with blogs about your favorite interests, or things you like to read up on alot. There is a blog for anything now days! Teachers could use the RSS to take advantage in their classroom like I have previously stated. If the classmates and parents subscribe to the teachers blog or even other students if they wanted, they could catch up on assignments if they missed or have forgotten. They can also ask other students questions or even me. If you are able to view it daily, and show you the updates, it will allow the teacher to know what questions and problems students are having within their at home assignments. It was very interesting how the video made it out like a Video store compared to Netflix, that breaks things down into students perspectives. It will let them know they can do most of it from home!

Thing 9

I thought the image chef was useful, say if a child was running for an office, or just wanted to make a cute banner for their favorite team! I went to create banner, and customized it myself! Check for vote, and my name, and a smiley face becasuse I am a happy person!
http://www.imagechef.com/

I chose this one by clicking on the Happy Face Generator. I chose the blonde, because yes I am a blonde. I want to be a teacher so I wrote that. And I love math so I also included that into my sign. I chose this because it was fun and happy, and a cute way for students to interact with one another about their moods or interests. I chose Disney writing because Disney movies are my favorite.
http://www.happyfacegenerator.com/

Thing 8

I chose the Spell with Flickr because I thought it would be handy. I spelled Shawn becuase he is my boyfriend and I love him to pieces! He means alot to me, so I just wanted to do something cute! In my future classroom I could use this by having my students Spell their names, and draw them as just a fun rainy day activity. I thought it was neat that everytime you clicked on the letter it would change it. This Flickr thing is getting better and better the more you know how to use it correctly.

Here is just one more, becasue this is what I am wanting to teach!

Thing 7

Flickr was difficult for me to use. It took me forever to realize how to get my image into my blog! Thank you Mrs. Wall for your help! I got this picture off of Claire Albert's Flickr and I used it because it was so precious. I love kittens and snow cones, so it fit me perfectly! I would prefer to use Photobucket instead, just because I am familiar with it due to having a Myspace for a while. Maybe once I am familiar with Flickr, my students could use it to find a picture that shows their personality! It would be a great way to learn the children's interests. Now that I know how to semi use Flickr, hopefully I can teach my students how to use it as well! http://www.flickr.com/photos/38924519@N03/3577930878/in/photostream

Thing 6

I enjoy alot of the award winning Web 2.0 sites. Some of my favorite that could be used in schools and or librarys would be any google, youtube, and pandora. This could allow the students to research, watch videos, and listen to music (with headphones). Although with younger and more immature students you will have to put a block on certain things throughout google and youtube. One of my personal favorites to use at home is PayPal. I use paypal by getting your purchases off of the internet, which I do alot. Shopping online is an addiction and I will continue to use PayPal to to pay for them!
www.paypal.com, www.youtube.com, www.google.com, www.pandora.com

Thing 5

After reading these articles, and watching the videos I realize how often I use the internet. My Iphone helps me alot throughout the day, with all of my apps, face time, internet, and so much more I can get on Facebook, Twitter, Skype, see the news and weather, talk to my friends, check my Diigo and so much more! I love technology. School 2.0 makes me think that everything in the classroom is going to start being done on computers, Ipads, and laptops. Nothing will be pencil and paper anymore and students will be alot more happy. Students already mainly talk about their lives through social networks! Within the next few years students will be able to acces all of their homework, quizzes, in class problems, report cards, and so much more through the internet. Students use 2.0 just as much as we do, depending on the age, but they communicate with their friends classmates and piers, and it will continue to rise as more social networks are formed!

Thing 4

Commenting on other blogs gives a sense of community becasue it lets you know others are actually interested in your blogs. If you have similarities you could comment and let the other know and so forth. Blogs can help you with many things such as: catching up with friends, finding recipes, finding different fun quotes! Commenting on a blog seems just as easy as commenting on things like Facebook and Twitter.

5 of my classmates blogs I commented on were:

http://clairealbert2.blogspot.com/2011/09/thing-6.html#comments

I commented on Claire's post because I know how much she loves kittens and shops on ETSY and found a cute collar! It is so cute how much she cares about cats, and I know one day she will treat her students with the same passion !

http://jpattersoneduc3040.blogspot.com/2011/09/thing-2.html#comments

I commented on Jessica's because she was saying she had some difficulty and I wanted to let her know I had difficulty as well, it is not east when you first start out!

http://cyingst.blogspot.com/2011/09/thing-2.html#comments

I commented on this blog because she seemed very creative. Her avatar has a cup of coffee because she loves coffee! I should have done the same thing. She gave me some great ideas!

http://keithr33-keithblogger.blogspot.com/

I loved his avatar! It got my attention big time. After reading his Thing 2 I realized he was just having some fun with it, therefore I wanted to let him know I liked his creative avatar.

http://blairoffutt.blogspot.com/2011/09/thing-2.html#comments

Blair's blog made me giggle. Him naming it 23 happy things did not sound like him but after him explaining it I understand. His avatar does not look like him at all, but I do not see how anyone's could! They were very fun to make though!!

2 other blogs I found were:

http://www.chocolategourmand.com/blog/

I loved this because the Expresso Gelato looked amazing! I love coffee and ice cream and it seemed like a great thing to comment on!

http://cutestblogontheblock.blogspot.com/

This is where my classmate Claire helped me find a background, and I just wanted to comment and let them know they are adorable and I am using one!

Thing 3

Using blogs in my future classroom could keep the students interested. It could be fun activities they could "post" about to one another on certain topics I choose. The only problem with that is if a child has no internet opportunity at his or her house, the classroom would have to have enough computers/ipads/laptops for each student to use. By doing it in class it would take up instruction time, but it could also be a way for the students to interact with one another through something as cool as "blogging." It would be a way for me as a teacher to see how the students are progressing in the subject activity rather than testing them all the time. I would love to have the opportunity to do fun things in my classroom like making them all an Avatar, the children would love that! I can not wait until I am in the classroom!

Thing 2

Creating my blog was very interesting. I have never had a blog, nor had I ever looked at one which made it fairly difficult. I sit beside a good friend Claire Albert which has had a blog before, so she helped me create it. I have a pretty background because Claire showed me how to get one. My posting name is just my name, Kenna Gupton and my blog name is just 23 Things* becasue that is what our blog is all about! Although I did not know what I was doing, it was fun to create it and share fun facts about myself so my classmates could see it as well. On the other hand the Avatar was easy and fun to make, but it does not look like me at all. It has blonde hair and blue eyes like I do but that is about it. My favorite color is pink, which is why she has a pink shirt on, and I love wearing blue jeans. I look forward to learning more about how to use a blog and technology, and hopefully one day this would be a fun activity to have my students do.

Thing 1

After watching the life long learner tutorial I learned interesting things even about myself which I have never thought of before. I tend to already be a lifelong learner becasue I do most of the seven and a half habits regularly. My favorite would be the accepting responsibility for your own learning habit, but also the play habit. I am still a big child at heart. I love reading, doing puzzles, and playing board and card games with my family. I have also learned growing up to accept your responsibility, it is one of the main "habits" my mom has always taught me.

Although I tend to do the habits regularly, one is quite a struggle for me. Viewing my problems as challenges. I am very hardworking, but if one thing goes wrong I tend to give up. As a future teacher this is something I need to work on tremendously, due to the fact problems will occur daily. As the tutorial said, we have faced many problems growing up and looking at them as challenges has currently brought me where I am today. It is just a rough spot in the road is how I need to look at it.

I look forward to doing these 23 things and learning more and more about myself and others in the process.