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I guess it would depend on what I created and the reason behind it which license I would choose but I would certainly go to Creative Commons to make my decision

I was looking for a picture and was surprised to find flickr had a group of photos and listed what licenses they were registered under...that was so kool.
I got this picture off of photobucket...I think people post their works for with no restrictions to get recognized and just for the love or creating and sharing art:)

Ohhh nooo I don't want to go!!!!!!

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Wkimedia

I was surprised to learn that Wikipedia had other online collaborative wiki projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki. All of the projects provides content for educational purposes.

I chose Wikibooks and Wikiquotes to look at a little closer. The content is available to freely distributable and reproduce. I think these two are great resources to use as an educator. Students will not have to worry about getting permissions to use the content and can focus on their research.

I like to use quotes to inspire my readers. Wikiquotes are categorized in several ways including; people, films, proverbs, themes, holidays and lists. This makes it easy to find the right quote to back up the idea or expression you want to convey.

Linking tools

I like being able to go to one of my sites and just clicking on any of the other sites I created. I mostly just copied and pasted. Picasa was the easiest to link because it just asked I wanted to add the other sites. It also helps me to keep all of my tools in one spot or several in this case :)

Igoogle does this for some of the links just not all of them.

Youtube

I like youtube... not necessarily to post myself. But I did find it to be very easy to upload a file. I even had fun creating this project for another class. Youtube is an excellent way to be creative, express your opinions, entertain and teach. There is even

you are able to find anything from homemade how to videos to pirated dvd movies....As far as I can tell there is no censorship or monitoring activity except for the tracking of how many views a video gets.

Chirbit

This audio sharing was okay...It didn't have a great way to update your profile...but you could link it to twitter and facebook.

I uploaded a sound file. You could hear steady hum of the fan from my computer so I must of had some technical difficulty from my microphone....

anyway my sound bite

Picasa

I already had a Picasa. I didn't know you could add other links to your profile...that was easy.....I really need to add more of my photos before my system crashes....but that is on the to do list....

My reflections

My thoughts of this class so far…..I am overwhelmed!!!!....The work is not hard…just time consuming……Not to mention all the great tools and sites we have been exploring.
The CMSimple is easy to work in and a wide variety of templates to suit anybody’s taste. I think I could use this application to help students with their first web site. As far as creating videos…I had an extremely hard time getting that done. Not because it was hard to do or upload….that was the easy part. It was more reviewing myself….I guess the worst critic is yourself. I can safely say I have no aspirations to go to Hollywood and see myself on the big screen..lol…Blogging is new for me…..This semester I have been having a hard time writing down my thoughts. I am not sure why anybody would want to read my thoughts…but it does make for a good journal and a way to go back and revisit the material you have written about. In the position listing, I didn’t realize how vague I had described the position until I had read some of the other posts. After thinking about it, if you don’t be specific, the task of sifting through all of the applicants could be time consuming as well as discouraging.
The google image labeler was kool. Here is something similar. I liked the concept. I wished I could think of a way to get my housework done for free. Maybe I could turn it into a game and get the kids to do it for me…..Second life was a trip….I’ve never been much of a navigator and in a virtual world it was no different. I ended in some world where they were talking in Japanese. It was a good thing I met Alana the first time I got on and she transported me to our class meeting. It was awesome to sit around a table just like a real classroom. But even with DIs instructions getting use to flying was difficult. I was so embarrassed that I got on the roller coaster and left the rest of the class…..I don’t even like roller coasters (even in the virtual world..lol) and I wanted off just as soon as I got on. The thing wouldn’t stop so I figured out how to stand and jump off…I would have been killed on a real one…..I did make it back, but I didn’t like that I couldn’t hear the conversation and I just heard music….I would liked to have cut the music off. I think when I get the chance to spend more time I will learn to love SL and especially meeting and learning from other people. Well I struggled with Wikipedia, wiktionary and wikiersity. I don’t have enough self confidence to project my thoughts on what others have added. I did think it was kool how you could go in and edit…to be an author …. To add material for the benefit of others…. I think I post plog to our definitions (a political blog)…only to come back later to find that it was a made up word..lol…I should of done a little more research on the word…I did get it off of wikionary….Goes to show that not everybody knows what they are doing and someone does monitor the site for discrepancies and accuracy.

Overall, I am having a blast in this class…..still overwhelmed by the assignments and all of the tools out there…but learning so much….. I look forward to getting caught up and learning so so much more 

My thoughts on Wesch

As I viewed Wesch video I thought about how much education has changed in the last 20 years. And how much technology has become a crucial part of everyday lives. Something that stuck out in my mind is the jobs of the future has not been created yet; So how do you prepare students for the future especially since a majority of educators do not have the 21st century skills of today. A website for 21st Century Learning.

The way students learn and interact with others has also changed in 20 years. We use to sit quietly and listen to the teacher and not really expected to challenge what we were learning or talk about it with other students. With students of today, social interaction and communication is a vital part of their life. Texting, twitting, facebook, my space and youtube are all outlets for the kids of today to express their thoughts and feelings. I think as educators we need to take advantage of this social media. Make these tools a new learning environment and go beyond the traditional teaching methods.

I came across this website and was really impressed with what it said about the future of learning.....I wanted to share what it said the keys to the future of education

1. It’s PERSONAL: where information and learning programs can be personalized and tailored to your own passions, talents, interests and needs. And where you
can share your own talents and skills with millions—for both fun and income.
2. It’s INTERACTIVE: with new digital platforms and templates to make it easy,
simple and fun to learn by doing, playing, creating, producing and interacting—a new
world of creative experiences.
3. It’s GLOBAL: the ever-expanding world-wide Internet owned by no one, used
by everyone; where the combined knowledge of humankind is now available to virtually
all at the tap of a digital keyboard or a touch screen.
4. It’s INSTANT: for the fi rst time in history, the ability to learn anything “just in
time”, when you need it, as you need it, at your request, and in your own way.
5. It’s MAINLY FREE: or nearly so—one low-cost click-at-a-time. The World
Wide Web, browsers, search engines and digital platforms make it easy to access
much information free, and to download other information for a few cents. Even free
international phonecalls.
6. It’s EASILY SHARED: the new world of collaborative networks to share your
abilities with anyone, anywhere. To store—free online and on community websites—
your family photographs, videos, music and even your digital multimedia portfolios
to demonstrate what you know and what you can do.
7. It’s CO-CREATIVE: if we can dream it, we can now do it—together with millions
around the world. Now we can merge our own talents into multi-talented global
teams, to produce new innovative answers to major global problems.
These seven keys have already unlocked new doors to transform industries, countries,
communities, commerce, communications and companies. They have the power
to reinvent every aspect of lifelong learning, teaching and schooling. But when these
“tipping points” link with other sweeping changes, the impact will be even greater:

Delicious

I like being able to go a different computer and go to my favorite sites. I also like the hot list and the search feature on Delicious I can quickly glance at some of the links people are bookmarking and I can also search for my interest as well. Helps save time in searching through hundreds of pages on the internet.

My bookmarks

I signed up for digg it too. but I haven't explored it enough

wikipedia

Editing wikipedia, wikiversity and wiktionary was a little intimidating for me. I worried about messing something up. I thought it was kool that I could go in and put down my thoughts and opinions. It was nice to know that someone was monitoring it though, I got a message in the wiktionary that my input should only be to define the term and not explain it that was for wikipedia...

I added My profile...that was interesting.

Anyway I am not a writer, but it was fun trying to be.....