Summarize My Thoughts

I have learned that this is only the beginning of a life long journey of learning about web 2.0 tools.  There are so many different ways that I can improve my skills using these tools.  I am not a very good technology person and I know for me to keep up with technology that I have to use to understand how it works at a regular basis.  There are web 2.0 tools that I already used before this program, for example: Facebook, calenders, and spreadsheets. I learned how to blog, edit Wikkipedia, use Animoto, use Flickr, and a lot of other things.  I know I did not learn how to use all of their features, so as I use them more in the future through my career to help me stay organized I will learn more and more of their features.
My favorite discoveries were Flickr and Animoto because I take a lot of pictures because in our family memories are documented a lot.  We like to take pictures to help us treasure our memories that we have made together.  This program has cahnged by lifelong learning goals by adding technology tools to it because I do not know everything about all the tools I was introduced to in this program.  Yes, there were some things about this program that surprised me.  the main thing that surprised me is how good I became with the tools that I was introduced to because of the readings and tutorials. The only discovery activity that did not teach me anything was the social networking one because I already had a facebook and myspace, so I was already aware of how to use them.
In order to improve this program you would have to make the some of the activities faster to see the end producy like the Animoto becasue I have impatience I do not like waiting a very long time to see the end product of something that I have created. Also,  talk to students to see what they know or do not know because some of the web 2.0 tools I have already used in my life for school and I did not need the instruction on them. It will influence my practice as a teacher because I will be able to use the web 2.0 tools to teach and it will linfluence me to use technology in the classroom to benefit my students and help keep my classroom organized.  It will help keep me on task, print worksheets, make tests, come up with ideas for lessons, and collaborate with my colleagues about information or classroom challenges. I plan on doing research every once in while to see what developments are being made inthe web 2.0 tools. Plus, I have selected a few features in the web 2.0 tools that I used to email me on updates on those tools.