Drum roll please!!!!!!!! The last step of "23 Things" is here.....
I read about Podcasts and YouTube. You Tube can be interesting to watch and listen sometimes but I don't think I am gonna record anything one of these days. In terms of podcasts, I can say that they can be educational at times. For example, I found English Language Learning podcasts that can be both entertaining (because students love to use computer and discover different websites) and informative for my students. They can listen to those sites to improve listening skills as well as vocabulary.
Learnoutloud.com has education related podcasts that I liked.

Wow!! This is week 8th. I am almost done with "23 Things". How about that?
Okay okay. Let me stop bragging:) Well, I checked out the interesting sites from the Web 2.0 awards list. There is a lot of information to look at. I liked the food and travel sites the most because I like cooking, especially baking, and I like to find good deals when I would like to travel.
Overall, helpful and informative sites to surf!!!

Vocabsushi looks helpful to increase the number of vocabulary that you know in general. It might be helpful to visit that site time to time. Each vocabulary is used in a sentence to clarify the meaning. Also there are articles that includes these vocab. Some of my students can benefit from this site to improve their vocabulary.

I read about Sandbox wiki. It is an interesting page with all those favorites included. I didn't comment there because I didn't want to add my blog to a public site .

Yes. I agree Web 2.0 is the future of education. The article states incredible ideas how the internet and web related education can be. Everything sounds good but we are not there totally. The good thing is that we are on our way to Web 2.0 Education. The new generation is ahead of us when it comes to technology, that is for sure. But we are trying to catch up and close the gap, aren't we?:)

Online image generator and creating comics are good to play around with. They are okay.....
But I liked the Wordle a lot. I am planning to show that website to my students. They can use it to practice the spelling of new vocabulary or group the vocabulary for different subjects in a cool way!!

I checked out Flicker and came across a page to explore the world on the page titled "a world map". It is really cool. It shows a lot of pictures from different countries by giving you a choice to choose the country you are looking for. This can be a good tool to use with my students. They can have a chance to share the features of their countries with their classmates.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/jump/interesting/?page=3
Check out this Flicker page for the amazing photo. Is she really jumping of the cliff? Wow..it looks very interesting.....

I created an account on googlereader.com and subscribed to several RSS feeds related to ESL, teaching tips, and how to help students learn better by creating effective classroom environment, etc. These feeds are helpful because they present different point of views of teachers from all around the US and the world. The good thing about these feeds is that they get updated frequently and give me a chance to follow up with fresh ideas in my field. I like surfing new websites about teaching ESL or teaching in general, how to implement technology in the classroom, classroom games, and many others to find interesting topics that I can share with my students in the classroom. I'll keep you updated when I come across interesting feeds.

I set up my nicenet account today and created Blog on my Teacher Web (work in progress). The next step; letting my students know these opportunities on the web and help them join the nicenet...Techonology is fun.....:)

I completed the first step! YESSSSSSS!!!