WOW! Remind me never to apply for 3 session at a conference again! I thought I would apply for 3 sessions in hopes that NCAECT would accept one. Surprise! The good thing was that we presented back to back to back in the same room and all on the first day.
Our best session was our [...]
That’s exactly how I’ve been feeling for a couple of weeks now. I can’t seem to shake this bug I’ve caught. Wonder if I just might be allergic to the new kitten that Jeff brought home. Hmmmmmm……
We had an interesting workshop on Thursday with the teachers at West. We started with Powerpoint [...]
What a wonderful week I had! It began Monday with my friend Kim and I presenting at the North Carolina Elementary Education Conference. We did our Web Wizards Web 2.0 presentation. How fun it is to have someone you can work with so well. She’s great and really does know her [...]
The far reaching Internet has proven itself to me once again. I’ve had 2 very unexpected emails from people I have never met in person and probably won’t ever see face to face. But, we are communicating and discovering how we can help each other.
The first email I received was from a company [...]
This has been a great week. I’m having more and more teachers approach me and ask how they can make a wiki. I knew the fire would catch on, but I had no idea how quickly it would spread! The wikis range in ability, like our kids, and some teachers have put [...]
Friday, August 31st was Blog Day 2007. This was something new to me since I wasn’t even blogging at this time last year. Bloggers around the world are being encouraged to highlight five newer blogs that might target a different audience than their own. Larry Ferlazzo nominated me as one of his five. WOW! What an [...]
Whew! We survived the first day of school. Actually, it was my first year in 15 years not being in the classroom. It was kinda sad - but I sure didn’t miss all the butterflies! From what I saw, both East Lee and West Lee opened very smoothly. At the end of the day, the [...]
Recently, I have been working with my former teaching partner’s students on making wikis. These students are extremely bright and only needed a starting point and off they went. While we were working one day, Cynthia wrote a poem concerning her dilemmas with wikis. She agreed to allow me to share:
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Okay, I must be losing my comprehension for directions - maybe because I read them so infrequently… I have been working on adding the YackPack widget to my wikispace and am having zero luck.
Maybe, I’m wanting something that YackPack can’t offer. I’d like for people to leave messages on the wikspace. I’ve tried [...]
Ok, we had “the discussion” this afternoon. The conversation of what should/should not be included in acceptable use policy. Also, what websites we thought were appropriate. Of course, YouTube was at the top of the list.
I understand that allowing student’s free reign to YouTube probably isn’t a good idea, but I also [...]
I previously posted my notes from the NCAECT Conference on my blog (see previous entries), but I want to leave the links if anyone is interested in reading. Remember, my head goes faster than my fingers or is it my fingers go faster than my head. Whichever one it is, there are typos [...]
I was so excited about the teacher making his wiki, that I forgot all about my exciting day on Friday.
My friend, the one that I think is the best Language Arts/ Social Studies teacher I know, called and asked me if I would help her class make a podcast.
Yippee! I was more than happy [...]
Yahoo2! How often do we get to post the good great stuff? Well, I have 2 great items to post tonight.
The first great item was that my presentation went well Thursday night. We had probably 100-150 people in attendance and I had a really good turnout at my sessions. That may [...]
Splat! That was me hitting the wall on Friday night. Hubby and I were having our normal Friday night supper with my school friends. The H.O.T.’s (husbands of teachers) were sitting at their end of the table discussing important stuff (I think I heard North Carolina and Kentucky basketball) and the [...]
I have forgotten how to work with 6th graders. After teaching 7th and 8th grade for several years, I forgot how you have to go slower and step by step with 6th graders. I worked with a group today using Gaggle as an editing tool. God love ‘em, they tried. [...]
I had another 3 am brainstorm. Wonder why our most impressive ideas come during inconvenient times - in the shower, in the middle of the night, in the bathroom?
Well, my bright idea was to make a wiki for teachers to find ideas for using Web2.0 in their classrooms. Not bad, huh?
Now, the [...]
