Is it the end or only the beginning?

My experience with the 23 Things has been fun! I have thoroughly enjoyed learning about all of the new technologies that are available to us. Some of my favorite things to learn about throughout this assignment were the RSS feeds and Google Reader, the various Google tools, the picture-videos on Animoto, the Delicious bookmarking site, and LiveBinders. This program has affected my lifelong learning goals in a positive way. I will continue to learn new things to use in both my personal and professional life. The things that I have learned along this journey will help me as an educator in many ways. I will be sure to incorporate several of these great tools into my preparation for lesson and unit plans, keeping up with educational technologies, and communicating with my fellow educators across the globe. Several of the RSS feeds that I have on my Google Reader will help me to stay abreast of the new developments in web 2.0, and the posts on Diigo will also inform me about the great websites that are available on the Internet. Diigo has been very helpful in expanding my knowledge of the websites of which I was previously unaware. It is a great website to use as an informational tool to learn about new things! Hopefully, I will be able to broaden my students' educational perspective by teaching them about the new technologies that are available as they come about.

After I finish with my 23 Things, I would like to continue using some of the tools and websites that I have learned about through this assignment. I hope to use several of them for my future classroom and students. Thanks to this learning experience, I will continue to look for new tools to use in my classroom and for my students. Once I have my own classroom and my degree, I also hope to create a blog or format my current blog for my classroom to communicate with my students and their parents. 

One thing that I recommend for this program is more step-by-step instruction regarding the tools to be used during the assignment. If the students have less confusion and frustration concerning the tools to be used, then they may be more inclined to actually use them after the assignment is complete instead of cancelling their subscriptions and/or accounts. This is especially true for those students who are less familiar with computers and other technologies in general. 

I was very surprised by the great amount of things that I learned about throughout this 23 Things experience. I thought I knew about many great websites and tools to use in my personal and professional life, but only one of the tools that I was aware of was presented in this program. So many of the tools that I have learned about are useful in one way or another. Several of them are great for everyday use! I am grateful for this chance to learn about so many new tools that I can use for the classroom and to assist me in increasing my productivity.