Technology in the Education Arena

I am currently enrolled in a course through Endicott College being offered in my district — Millennials: Technology, Teaching, and Learning.  This week’s task is to create a blog or wiki.  Since I already have a blog and wiki, I thought I would look back on my first entry posted my blog.  Teachers feel overwhelmed getting into this Web 2.0 world, but if they know that we all feel that way at one time or another and to take one tool at a time, the movement grows and more and more teachers will be using these great tools with their students.

My first post to my blog on June 20, 2006

Well, I have finally arrived in the blogosphere. I have spent the past month reading about blogs, wikis, and podcasts. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed. It felt like when I began using a search engine oh so many years ago — I would put a search word in and get 50,000 finds and not know where to start. One month later and thanks to Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson, Publishing a Blog with Blogger (a Visual QuickStart Guide), along with Classroom Blogging by David F. Warlick, I have learned a lot (at least enough to get started). I am going to spend time this summer learning about blogs and how I can work with the teachers on integrating them into their classroom — whether it is for a daily journal, a grade-level news update, a discussion on a project in class, or a blog with input from the students. The best way to learn is by doing so here I am!