One Last Thing

The most enjoyable time I had while going through 23 Things was discovering new things. I enjoyed all the playing I got to do as I learned which reminded me that it is important to add fun to classroom lessons. I hope to continue to learn new things as I check out my RSS feeds every few days or every day. My most surprising outcome was how many doors opened in conversations when I used newly discovered terms from Web learning. Talking to my daughter about blogging and my son about Sketch up were definite highlights. I wasn't so much surprised as pleased to find myself getting more comfortable at blogging (only rereading and rewriting once instead of many times before clicking on publish post button). The only frustration I encountered were the one or two website links that were no longer available. While I didn't encounter too many of these, this is a little frustrating. However, I do appreciate how difficult it would be to correct this considering the lightening-paced change that occurs on the web each and every minute of the day. And, that is just something one has to expect when exploring over the Internet. Overall, I have to say that this has been one of the easiest online classes I have taken. Time consuming and long, but worth every minute spent! 23 Things has made me feel more comfortable about using Internet resources for lessons and has made me familiar with how to go out and find more resources, keep up to speed with things that are going on in education technology, and find a social network of people with similar interests and problems. I am not exactly sure about keeping up with new stuff in Web 2.0, but I believe that an RSS feed to Teacher 2.0 might be a good place to start. And, I am on my way to check out the Learning 2.1 blog. Thanks for a great course!