The Journey Continues...
Congratulations, you've made it to Thing 23! We hope, as you complete this program, you are enthusiastic and prepared to continue your journey of exploring and using Web 2.0 technologies to transform how you teach and learn.
You know now that a large part of changing the way we learn and teach involves embracing change. As a matter of fact, ten of the Things that you explored as part of your journey through Wilton's 23 Things version 2.0 have either been updated or replaced entirely as new tools became available, old ones disappeared or instituted pay-to-play business models.
In version 1.0 of this course all that we asked of you at Thing 23 was to watch a movie and tell us how you've changed. Now that has changed too.
One of the largest parts of Web 2.0, as stated above, is change. The web and the technologies deployed there change every day. As you can imagine, keeping track of it all is difficult if not impossible. So here, at the end of the formal course, we want to empower you to actively seek and embrace those changes.
One of our favorite tools for finding new things first is Mashable.com, the link is to an article there about the top 100 Online resources for education. Take a look and make Mashable one of your frequent places to go. You can even add their RSS feed to your Google Reader account.
Because we want the focus of this Thing to be your final blog post, we'd like you to watch this video and complete an online survey. If you are getting CEUs, you will be directed to complete a survey in Protraxx at the close of this course to receive credit. To improve this course we would like all participants to complete this survey at survey monkey. Click here to take survey
Watch the movie below again. You saw it back in Thing 1. Have you changed?
Blog Prompts for Thing 23
Take a few moments to reflect on your journey. You've covered a lot of material over the past three months. What does it all mean? How has your thinking changed between Thing 1 and Thing 23? Has this program changed how you view the Internet or how view education in the digital world? What plans have you made for using these tools in and out of the classroom? How will you continue to learn about Web 2.0 tools? Did you find anything new at Mashable? What are your big "take aways" from this experience?
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