Web 2.0 Tools

I thought the presentations of Web 2.0 tools were fun and interesting.  I had no idea about most of these sites.  I still probably would not use most of the tools because I still think they are too much trouble.  I felt that the internet makes these tools more confusing and hard to use.  Because of this reason, I really liked Smilebox.  I love how you can download the tool to your computer and do not have to deal with the internet.  I love the different things you can do with the tool and feel it would really help my elementary classroom.  I also really like Picnik.  I loved the example that was given in class about name cards.  In elementary classrooms, name tags are used to help guide students to their seats on the first day of class.  There seems to be so many so great designs for it that will make it fun for the students.  I do think this project is worth doing every semester because it it explains tools that some people may have never seen before.  Even though the tools seem confusing and too much trouble, I would still try to use these tools in the classroom in order to make learning more fun for my students.  It would be selfish of me to not use these tools because they are too much trouble or confusing.  My goal is to make learning easy and fun for students.