"Time well spent," is how I would respond if asked what I thought about this foray into this summer professional development course. I learned so much and feel I have the tools necessary to enhance the educational experience of my students. RSS feeds, blogging, diigo, glogster, animoto, wordle, and others will find their way into my classroom this year. This course has given me a great introduction to these sites and now I feel comfortable enough to investigate them further and incorporate them into my program. Amy and Diane, you pulled information from the vast world of technology and fed it to us in a digestible format. Thank you.
For this latest assignment, I watched the tutorial for teachingbooks.net. Though familiar with the site, I did not know all of its features. I think it is a great site to use with students at all grade levels, particularly the ones I see each week in grades K through 6.
It is a very busy time of year being back to work as you are all aware and so I have not had a tremendous amount of time to delve too deeply into all of the suggestions that were made for this assignment. When things quiet down, I will look more closely at the offerings. It is doubtful that I would twitter myself as I do not see how it is appropriate for the age group that I work with though I do follow some "tweeters" and can see how a media specialist at the middle school or high school might find it beneficial.
There's no timetable for tech - use what you feel comfortable with, and never let tools drive the learning. I'm glad you enjoyed our summer explorations; thanks for letting Amy and me show you some possibilities :-)
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