This week reflection

To be honest with you guys this week was tough for me. There was a lot of new information that I had not really ever thought about. It was hard to understand the purpose in which we use hashtags, crowdsourcing, and intellectual property. However I came away feeling like I have a better grasp on those three things. I know that I can use hashtags in my classroom to help the learning process. I plan to do that this fall when school starts back up. I also can have my students and myself use crowdsourcing to enhance our learning together. I also want to share this with other faculty because I think it is a good way for us to collaborate more effectively. I am going to try and produce some of my own materials for certain lessons that I teach and put those things on Teachers Pay Teachers and slideshare. I also signed up for the site diigo and it lead me to a group that was already formed that I joined called Web 2.0. With the help of this group I signed up for voice threads and am going to produce some of those as well. I think those will be great when I know I am going to be out of school. I can have the students watch and comment and I can answer back from the app on my iPad. I really have to say that after a few days of treading water I think I sorted out a lot of things and feel much better heading into next week. Well off to finish this paper. Hope you guys have a great weekend!!
Share below anything you guys took away from this week. Also how do you plan to use the tools we learned about?

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