Inventory counting

I cant believe the semester comes to its end. I have learned so many new things in this class! The one most powerful thing I have experienced from CI 556, was the motivation factor (When I was tired to read other school materials, I was happy to work on our ABC book assignment, and read and learn information from the web; I was so excited to do our digital story assignment, that I have made the narration when I woke up at 4 am (crazy?), and was so happy that it all came out at one time, one narration!). I am glad we got the chance to experience the different assignments, since now I know how my students would feel when I will share my knowledge with them: they will be motivated to do those assignments and without noticing - they will improve their literacy skills while having fun!
If before taking this course I thought that all technology is very complicated, may be almost impossible to apply, now I have the feeling that everything is possible and I am not afraid to try!

The Inventory counting title above referees to the list I have just made to count which new software, hardware, applications and resources I have learned in class this past semester. I am not sure I got everything in this list, but I tried to include most of it.

So here it is:

Blogging
Inspiration
Comic Life (& http://www.eusd4kids.org/edtech/xapps/xapps_comic.html)
Photo Booth
Kids Pix
Book flix
SubEthaEdit
Keyboard teaching techniques
social networking
Handhelds/PiCoMap/sketchi
podcasting
ipods/mp3players
GarageBand
wikispaces
google maps
open office
Moviemaker / Digital storytelling
PowerPoint (inserting sounds and hidden buttons)
Makebeliefscomix
iPhoto
Living Books
Webquest.org
Web 2.0 / second life / virtual reality
www.storylineonline.net
Rubistar
HotPotatoes
Visuwords
bubbl.us
wordle.net

What a list, ha?!

I hope I will be able to successfully apply technology with my future students and I wish you all to be able to do the same and enjoy it!
Thank you Dr. Schmidt!
Happy end of semester everyone!

Anat