I began exploring Wiki’s this past school year. Our Technology Department created a PD resources wiki for all staff K-12. Our goal with this wiki is to point all teachers to one location to locate teaching resources, online tutorials and so forth. I personally explored  wiki spaces by creating two building based technology wikis. My [...]

Okay who else is having trouble keeping up with their RSS reader? WOW – there is so much to read! If you miss looking at your reader for a few days forget it… I know I need to just scan the articles but I feel like there are so many new ideas. I’m usually all [...]

I’m finding the blogs that I’m drawn to are those offering information on free internet resources or ways to incorporate web 2.0 technologies into the elementary classroom. As an elementary technology specialist, I like to find tools that I know my teachers can use immediately with the children in their classroom. This often means a [...]

Thanks to this course, I am beginning to explore the “Blog” world. I’ve known that it’s been out there and that I should be exploring blogging as an educator, teacher and using it with our students. But the time…as was so nicely identified in The Ripe Environment blog. The time is so hard to find [...]

Using the web in the 21st century brings life to so many new areas and formats for ALL. For years we simply taught students/teachers how to safely browse the internet to research any given topic. Which resources will provide the best information? Don’t forget to gather graphics to support your work. Now we are working [...]

I enjoying reading and listening to the effective habits of life-long learning. They all make great sense. As I’ve grown as an adult, parent and educator, I see how important these habits are in order to change and challenge yourself.
For me, habit 7 Teach/Mentor others will be the easiest. I love to work with teachers [...]