Thing 10

I had to work out the kinks but here is a possible survey I would use with my students.

Thing 7

Professionally, social bookmarking can make the search for information less time consuming. You follow other's lead. How easy is that? Personally, in one of the articles, the author stated that today people go to the internet to help them fix anything and everything. My fellow teachers that are younger than me go to google to find out anything and everything. I know I am behind the eight ball on this because I have not learned how to utilize the accessability of information at your finger tips mentality. In the classroom, I'm not sure how to utilize del.icio.us. Any ideas?

Thing 2

I have never blogged before. I enjoy the person to person view when I communicate. I prefer the telephone than typing my thoughts. I have not read blogs before never really knew they existed. As I said before, I prefer person to person communication. I like to see the person I am talking to. Putting my thoughts out there for everyone to see is very scarey. My fears is that someone whom I don't know will have the opportunity to know me.

Thing 11

My plan of attack is to retire, but then again I can't because I didn't become a teacher just for the $ or summers off, I wanted to help students the way I hadn't been helped. Now I have to suck it up and totally learn all this digital doo doo so that I can at least be on the same playing field as my students. All of the "things" that I have interacted with in the last 4 days (because of technical difficulities) make me feel so inadequate as a teacher. I hope my students don't feel that way. I guess I'll through the question out to my followers of the "11 things" which one(s) do you feel to be the most benefical to begin on my journey?

Thing 9

My first attempt at embedding allowed me to loose the slideshow and then I couldn't find it again. Found this one with basically the same message for me: "How are we preparing our students for the 21st century?" This slideshow as was the first is helping me to realize I have to teach differently then how I was taught!

Teaching and learning in an era of disruptive innovation

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Thing 9

As I have observed my students since the advent of internet usage, especially youtube, of course they would love to create media to put on slideshare. As for problems, students would have to be taught what is appropriate and how to navigate through appropriate sites. As of right now, I created an account, but none of the slideshows are loading, so that will be my first problem to solve.

Thing 8

As I was reviewing what Google Docs can do, I thought about our upcoming Science Fair, and how students save their work at home and then want to bring it in and print at school. I haven't allowed it because of virus threats. Or students would print their rought draft, I would edit, and they would have to print again. Would I be able to set up accounts for them? I could edit and then we could print. What a way to save paper?

Google Docs Survey

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Thing 7

I took a delicious PD this summer with Jim. After reading the articles, I have a better understanding of it vast usefulness. However, I still get bogged down with navigation of all this techie stuff. Is there a mentor out there who could help?