Reflections

I enjoyed this project very much. I am very glad to know of so many useful tools. I would love to create a wiki for my future classroom and perhaps have my students create their own blogs for discoveries and reflections. I enjoyed learning about RSS Feeds, Del.icio.us, Animoto, and TeacherPop the most. I have been keeping my eyes open for other awesome Web 2.0 things like Voki and just today I came across authorSTREAM which allows a user to upload Powerpoints so that they can use them on their websites or blogs!

I plan to keep this blog for my own reference. I have learned so much from these "things!" I started another blog several weeks ago in response to this one: How I Became a Teacher, and I am using it to organize my thoughts along my journey. It has really helped me reflect on my field experiences so far. I hope to one day have enough confidence to reach out to other edubloggers!

Thing 23-- Creative Commons

I understand why this was the last "thing" on our list. Web 2.0 is really about sharing, learning, helping, and bringing people together. Creative Commons helps people do just that.

I read about Creative Commons a few days ago, and about that time, I was also looking at pictures of celebrity babies. I'm not really into following the lives of celebrities, but I am a sucker for babies! This was one of the pictures I saw:

[(c) Mrs. Me, Inc., 2008.] This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.

On Gwen Stefani's site, she shared this picture with a Creative Commons license making it okay for others to put it on their blogs (and in other media, with some restrictions). I thought it was neat to see a Creative Commons license in action outside of this project (the credits and Creative Commons license for the APSU 23 Things project are clearly displayed on the lower right hand side of this page)!

As an educator, I am glad to know about Creative Commons, not only to understand what I can and can not do with others' work but also so that I can share my ideas as well. I think we are all capable of those big ideas, and I can't see any reason not to share them and to be a part of a community that helps and supports each other. That is really what becoming a teacher is all about!