23 Things Conclusion

I am astounded with the wealth of information out in the web!  I have gained several tools and have come up with several ideas that I will use in my classroom.  Hopefully the ideas will work, but as I have learned since becoming a teacher practice is everything!  Blogging and Flickr are the two tools that I found to be the most important in my job.  Blogs can be useful tools in the classroom and I plan on implementing a classroom blog as soon as Fall Break is finished.   I think that in order for me to continue learning about Web 2.0 is to practice.  I need to research (using Google of course) all of the different apps and play around with them.  The only way I learn is by doing.  The only criticism I have about the 23 Things program is the length of time given to completing it.  I felt rushed on each Thing and if I had more time to play around with each item I may have found more uses.  I have bookmarked the blog and will continue to look at it and see what has changed and to go back and play with the apps I was not able to spend a lot of time on.