Thursday, January 31, 2008

Thing 2

I became interested in using the Internet in my elementary school library when I discovered Will Steger's arctic exploration years ago. He offered daily posts that my students and I could read and respond to. We watched his progress and rooted for his successes. The classroom teacher and I were excited to connect with a real-time explorer - the students were experiencing it - not just reading about an explorer in their textbook. There are now so many ways to connect classes with real people - the possibilities seem endless!

And Web 2.0 provides so many ways for people to people connections.. My 87-year old mother now plays Scrabble with me and with my sons online. Although we live far apart, we have daily connections with each other. We love it!

Monday, January 21, 2008

Thing 1 - Avatar

Thanks to a smart colleague, I have an avatar. Pretty cool!

Thing 1

Thing 1 has been done - to post a blog, but I can't figure out the avatar thing yet. I've read about most of the "23 things" but haven't played around with all of them, so this will be good experience for me.