Drum roll, please... Thing #23

Wow, this has been a whirl wind of a course! I am so very grateful that I stumbled into it. I am very overwhelmed by all of it and I do really feel like this is just a beginning.
There are several things that I would categorize as my favorite discoveries on this learning journey. First and foremost is this Blog. I am going to continue to keep track of my life using this tool. It will probably take a more personal turn from here on out, but I kind of want to keep track of myself using this tool. It really will be part of my lifelong learning goals.
Another tool that I really enjoyed and mostly for personal use was Flickr. There was just some many fun tools that I could see myself really running with it.
The tool that I am most proud of getting comfortable enough to try something with was the Wiki. I can't believe that I built a Wiki for use by my students and myself in order to sign up for our service learning project. It really stemmed from the fact that I was at a conference out of town and needed a way for students to sign up while I wasn't there. It worked pretty well. I wasn't aware that I would have to approve them individually prior to them being able to contribute to the Wiki, but it worked anyways.
The only thing that I would have us do differently to improve upon this program would be to help us to be more interactive with our classmates. Have part of our assignments to be comment more often on each others work. I looked around at others stuff but not nearly as much as I should have. I think I could learn more about the process of the 23 Things by seeing how others were fairing. I would have also liked more feedback on what I was doing.

Lastly, I would most definately do something like this again. I would take this very class. I have told so many of my fellow Lambkin teachers about this class. Please continue to offer it. I loved this experience and I really do feel that I have grown as both a person and an educator by doing this work. Please tell me that we will have access to your Ning forever. Let me know please, I will need to be guided back to some of our tools.

Thank you and good night!
Elaine