Thing #6

This Thing was very fascinating. Looking through all the Web 2.0 tools was enriching. I learned about tools that I never knew existed. This Web 2.0 tool is a good tool for everyone to explore because their is something on there that would be interesting to them. It is a wide variety of tool and its hard just looking at one without looking at others.
The tool that I though was interesting was UJam. I liked Ujam because I love music. This tools allows you to create your own particular music and record whatever you want. This is perfect for me because I write songs and I make music. SO this particular tool would be very useful for me and would give me a new outlet of choices to choose from.
Ujam can be used in schools if the students where doing an art project or they were in a music class. This would help them record their music and save it and come back and add more on to it. This tool also would allow them to share it with friends and family if they wanted to.

Thing #5

School 2.0 is an opportunity for growth with different learning techniques and methods using technology. This will be beneficial to students and teachers. Teachers can use teachers to be more accurate with their studies and teaching methods. With this evolution of new technology in school it allows student to strengthen their capabilities in certain areas. These areas can consist of research, online help, and a variety of different social medias that are educational based.
These new technologies provide a more advanced future. It can innovate more technology options other than computers, such as ipads. This also can bring forth better improved smart boards with clickers that gives students a chance to participate without having to write anything down; a click of the clicker would show their participation. Technology will draw students attention because that's all that they surround themselves with. Hopefully with this new technology they can someday integrate game systems into classrooms that would benefit students in learning different subjects. I think that this will bring schools into a new direction of success and may graduation rates will rise in certain areas that they are very low. Web 2.0 has and will open different doors to better knowledge and better resources

Thing #4

Being allowed to see other people blogs is a really unique experience. However commenting on them bring a new adventure that allows you to interact with the people about their post. By commenting It allows others to get a full understanding, ask variety of questions, and just to respectfully agree or disagree with the different post. When receiving the comments it allows you to explain yourself and point out key ideas of your particular blog. Something that stood out to me is how commenting on others blog allows them and privilege you of spreading the word of my posts.

In my class, I commented on Melissa "Spanglish, say what", Whitney Valdez Thing 2, Haley McCaskill Thing 6, Kayla Kitchens Thing 3, and Michaela Crutcher Thing 4. I just express my opinions of the different blogs I were reading. I enjoyed reading every post and letting them know everything I though was fascinating about them. I hope I get comments on my post as well.
In outside classes I commented on Joya Threakill Thing6 and Cynthia Gray Thing 11. I complemented them on their post. I was interested with their post and told them how I relate them to my everyday lifestyle.

Thing #3

For teaching matters, I would use my Blog as a recap for my students. I would allow them after every week to post how they felt that week, what are things they did not understand, things they can improve on, and things that they have learned. This would be considered a weekend homework assignment for them to help me understand what they accomplished and what they could use help with. I also would create a blog for my fellow co-workers to upload things that could help my students and myself as far as different tools and websites that aided them in the classroom.

Thing #2

Creating a blog for the first time ever was pretty amazing. Making an avatar to fit in with my character was entertaining, which made the blog more interesting. As I mentioned this is my first time ever using a blog. I have always heard of blogs but I never used or read any before this subject area. Creating the blog for the first time was easy with no difficulties at all.
My name of my blog is Bluphi77. The reason I chose this name is because I am in a fraternity and that is one of our sayings. It is also easy to remember for me. My avatar resembles me perfectly because i am a laid back type of guy and the avatar pretty much fits that personality.