The Longer Road Traveled

It's been a challenging road traveling through new Web 2.0 terrain while continuing down the ole' education turnpike. There's been technical potholes and 'traffic' jams along the way, but the destination was interesting a beneficial for the kids. When they ask "Are we there yet?" you can honestly say "Nope, this trip never ends."

The presentation is finished and the files uploaded to WikiSpaces. All we need are citations and a late night bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios. Almost forgot, I still need to finish the homework from the last summer class. I knew that euphoric feeling wasn't going to last long. I bid you farewell with this newly discovered picture. Enjoy :-)

Final Project Day

I'm so excited as we approach the final hour for final presentations. I can not wait to see the class presentations and hear about how the lessons went, what was learned and the pitfalls that occurred. It is hard to imagine how teachers can go back to a classroom after completing this course and NOT integrate and change the way they engage students. I keep asking myself: Why don't all students have the knowledge at graduation to compete in today's ever limited work force? Are we negligent by not teaching them with the tools available today? What needs to change? Always more questions than answers, but I continue to look and ask, what if.......

Reflections on Day #6

I realize this is a bit past Day 6, but wanted to still comment on how valuable day 6 of our class was for me.
It was nice to revisit everything we had covered in the previous 5 days. There was sooooo much. It gave me a chance to make a note of the tools and ideas I wanted to try and incorporate into my classroom and my instruction.
Learning about screencast, jing, and download helper.net was valuable, especially when putting my presentation together for our final class.
We discussed Rubistar and that was so helpful when creating my rubric for my comic strip project. I have used Rubistar several times since our last class. This is a great site. I have recommended it to several teachers in my building.
I enjoyed the time devoted to sharing our project ideas with each other. Not only was it nice to hear everyone's thoughts, but it helped to validate that my project idea was headed in the right direction. I appreciated the advice and suggestions from the group.
Jeff's overview of the project and questions to ponder was very helpful. I have found myself returning to these thoughts and questions as I create my final presentation.
I enjoyed day 6 and found it helped to piece the class together and make sense of all that we had been exposed to in the previous 5 days.