Journal 1: 100 things that make me happy

1. Family-Mom, Dad, Sister, Grandparents, etc.
2. My Boyfriend
3. Friends
4.The beach
5.Traveling
6. Shooting Stars
7. losing weight
8. Fruit
9. Mexican Food
10. Starbucks
11. Smoothies
12. getting good grades
13. Zumba
14. My pets
15. Helping People
16. Helping Animals
17. My iphone
18. Teen Mom 2
19. The Bachelor
20. The Buckle
21. Victoria's Secret
22. Sephora/ makeup
23. Dancing
24. Music
25. Facebook
26. Meeting new people
27. going to church
28. being tan
29. Puppies
30. Vacation
31. When Finals are over
32. My laptop
33. Reading good books
34. Being lazy on rainy days
35. Snowboarding
36. Learning new things
37. Baking
38. Buying gifts for others
39. The biggest loser
40. Working with kids
41. Having a clean room
42. Organization
43. Iceskating
44. Bowling
45. Seeing Plays
46. Concerts
47. Supercross
48. Glamis Sand Dunes
49. The river
50. Amusement Parks
51. Movies
52. My mom's cooking
53. Christmas
54. Family Reunions
55. Hiking
56. Kayaking
58. Hawaii
59. Alaska
60. Inter-tubing
61. Coloring Pictures
62. Having a new outfit to wear
63. Manatees
64. Pole Position
65. Sparkles
66. Smelly Goods
67. Lists
68. Having Money
69. Going out to eat
70. Getting a Pedicure
71. Getting my nails done
72. Getting my hair done
73. Happy endings
74. Being successful and seeing others succeed
75. Dogs
76. Bridesmaids the movie
77. Working at a Kids Club
78. Dressing up
79. Relaxing
80. Sunsets
81. Coke Zero
82. Making Memories
83. Pictures
84. The Dallas Cowboys
85. Being Productive
86. The Mountains
87. Calculators
88. In In Out
89. Clean Teeth
90. Jacuzzi
91. spell check
92. Basketball
93. Speech Therapy
94. completing semesters
95. massages
96. parties
97. my sisters laugh
98. Sleep
99. Warm Blankets
100. My Body Pillow

Journal 2: Join the Flock and Enhance your Twitter Experience

            Ferguson, H. (2010). Join the flock!. ISTE: Learning and Leading, 37(8), 13-15. Retrieved from      http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/DigitalEditionMarch-April2012.aspx 

            Miller, S. M. (2010). Enhance your twitter experience.ISTE: Learning and Leading, 37(8), 15-17. Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/DigitalEditionMarch-April2012.aspx 

Summary: In the article "Join the Flock" by Hadley Ferguson, we are first introduced to the term "PLN", which is a community of individuals around the world who are learning together (2010:13). This term is introduced in order to explain the social networking website Twitter. Mainly, this article is an way of explaining how to use twitter in an educational and beneficial way. For instance, the author explains that Twitter is an amazing tool in connecting with people who share similar interests. Basic concepts of twitter are also explained, like how to "follow" someone, what a hash tag is, and the importance of citing your resources. It is clear that the main purpose was to introduce Twitter and its basic components.


In the article "Enhance your Twitter Experience", the author Shannon Miller builds on readers knowledge of twitter by introducing organization systems online, twitter terminology, and how to manage tweets with a bookmark. She also speaks of the importance of not only utilizing information but giving it as well. 


Question 1: Why is it important to expose yourself on Twitter and not only utilize other peoples tweets?


Answer: It is important to expose yourself because when you actually share your ideas with others you will be able to connect and learn so much more from your followers rather then just sitting back and looking at everyone's information they have found and offered to share. Twitter is a site made for users to open up and explore the different elements of the web site. It is important to know that twitter can be used educationally as well as socially, therefore, in order to gain more information in both areas, tweets need to be given as well as received. 


Question 2: What is the point of using a twitter organizer and what are a couple different ones?


Answer: Shannon Miller offers both tweetdeck and hootsuite as good twitter organizers. She also shares that they are useful because you can organize your twitter stream into columns such as all friends, direct messages, etc. You can open and close as many columns as you want and it is just an easier way of seeing all your twitter components laid out. For people with a lot of different tabs open all the time on their computer (like most students), this is a very useful tool. Most would agree that it could be frustrating having so many tabs open and clicking back and forth between them. With tweetdeck or hootsuite, all your friends, messages, tweets, etc, are all on one page in front of you.