Thing #6

Pinterest is a great website for people with any interest! You have your personal profile and you create personal boards (categories). You can also follow your friends or people who have the same interests.  Then, you can search for products and ideas that interest you and add them to your personal boards. For example, I have a "Future Classroom" board, "My Wedding" board, "Food/recipes" board, and etc. I search through the website for ideas I want to do and I organize them in my boards so they are easily accessible. You can also share things you have done or ideas you want to do. I love this tool! I have the application on my iPhone and I use it any chance I get. It is very addictive. The useful features is the fact that you can organize your "Pins" into boards and they can easily be found. It is almost like a social network among you and your friends or people with similar interest. This website is very helpful in the classroom but more for the teacher than the students. Teachers can find many "Do it yourself" projects for their students.

Thing #5

"School 2.0", to me, means education in the future through technology  in the classroom. This means teachers using technology more proficiently in the classroom and incorporating into everything possible. Also, students are going to become more familiar with technology and it is going to be as necessary in the classroom then as paper and pencils are now. I know that as a future teacher I need to stay as up to date with technology as possible. Technology is evolving so fast and I feel like if I do not purchase the newest gadgets and use what I have access to then I will fall behind. A teacher who is not up to date could possibly be a hindrance in the future classroom and I do not want that to be me.

Thing #4

Everyone who writes a blog wants people to read it and if the people who read leave comments then the blogger does not feel like they are talking to themselves. I enjoy reading comments that people write and I want to know what they liked most about it and how it made them feel.

The blogs I commented on and some of which I began to follow are:

Lacey Butler's Blog

Hayley Carney's 23 Things Journey

Angie Kreier Blog

Benjamin Baldridge's Blog

Alison Curtis

We Are Blessed! Heather and Andyman

Better Days

I selected the first five because I enjoyed reading them. I tried to choose people who I thought were similar to what I think. I tried to put encouraging comments on their blog. I told them it was good and that I agreed with this or that.  I began to follow a few friends blogs named We are blessed and the other is Better Days. One is a teacher and I always love reading her posts when she shares them on Facebook. The other is a beautiful family that I have known for years.

Thing #3

Blogging is really something I would like to get into as a teacher. There are many ways to incorporate blogging into this profession. I personally would like to have one to read back on and see my growth and reflect on my experiences. Also, I could create a blog for the parents of my students. We can use blogger as a type of newsletter. It can be somewhere the parents can read what their students are doing and even see pictures. Another option could be a way to share your classroom ideas with other teachers or find ideas for my own classroom. Blogging is very fun and the ideas and uses are endless!

Thing #2

       I have had a lot of experience with Blogger and blogging in general. I am not the most proficient user but I have participated and followed many of my friends who have blogged as well. I just kept it simple and used my full name as my positing name "Lindsey Nicole Burris" and I named my blog "23 Things". Creating my blog was very easy because I already had a Blogger account created. I just added a new blog to my Blogger account. I do not believe that my avatar looks anything like me but it does have a big smile and I usually always am smiling. Other than that, it is just something I had to add to my blog but it is good to know how to do so.

Thing #1

        I believe no matter what age you are you always have something to learn. To implement good habits is very crucial. I always try to begin everything with the end and reason in mind. This is easy for me because I have a hard time doing something unless I know what my goal. I know very well that my education is my own responsibility and I have to earn it. If I do poorly, nine times out of ten it is my own fault.No one is checking up to make sure I am doing my homework but it is my responsibility. I learned very quickly that if you go into a class thinking how awful it is you will not do as well as if you walked in with a positive attitude. This is the same with anything you do, have a positive attitude and confidence that you can do anything. If you do this, you will be more successful. As a learner or as a teacher you know how you or your students learn most effectively. Always add your learning tool box, discover effective ways to accomplish a task or to learn new material. Technology is advancing faster than I can keep up. Anytime a new piece of technology comes out that can help me to improve, I try my hardest to get my hands on it. For example, I always hate reading a book for enjoyment but I recently purchased an iPad. With my new iPad I have read two novels in no time. Problems are a challenge we have to overcome and I have no problem helping someone else through the same thing I went  through or teaching someone something I know. In everything I do I try to have fun and enjoy myself, there is nothing wrong with a little play with your work!

I had no problems setting up my blog. It is also very familiar to me because I have blogged many times.