Thing 23 ...My Plan of ATTACK!

Where do I begin...I have personally learned so much through this Web 2.0-- 23 things course. I thought that I knew lots of information and was comfortable with my computer skills until I dove more into this course. I am thrilled with the amount of learning that I have endured this summer. It is interesting to me to reach the end of this course and feel overwhelmed with more knowledge and excited to use better technology with my students, colleagues, and in my personal life. I have set of goal with myself to continue monitoring the bloglines to try to stay current with the latest information. I am going to check out more information on the Michigan Learnport to explore more PD at home.

I will continue to update my wikispace with hopes that the parents in my classroom will buy into seeking it out for information about my class. I also intend on creating a Web page with information to help students and parents with upcoming events in my classroom. It would be awesome if all of my parents have access and use readily a computer and have some knowledge of exploring webpages/ wikispaces, etc. If they aren't familiar with these sorts of technology, I will try to put something together for Open house so that parents can see my excitement for technology and hopefully learn how to open my websites for classroom information.

I am looking for ways to get my second graders involved in an easy way to explore more of what the internet has to offer them. I feel they are a little to young for lots of what I learned in this course, however, I will try to simplify some of this information for them so they can learn something new.

To get the rest of of the staff involved would be awesome!! It will be difficult because people have different comfort levels with the internet and almost fear it. I would love to keep learning more about it myself so that I can bridge that gap for teachers in my building and help make it easier for them to explore new learning. The more I learn, the more I can teach, and I will continue learning more everyday. I have been involved in many leadership opportunities within my district and I am confident that I can help lead others into trying out some of these new technology avenues.

Lately, I have found myself opening my internet browser and exploring 21st century learning. I am interested in figuring out all that I can to help myself learn so that I can be a better teacher. In the upcoming school year I will be working with new technology in my classroom. A 3M annotation system was installed in my classroom this summer. Therefore, I thought that if I took this Web 2.0 course it would help me become more tech literate and give me more knowledge of sites that would be good to use with my students with the new system. I still have a lot to learn. I plan on continuing my learning and expanding the "PLN" with others in my school building and my district. It will be easy to connect with people by keeping up with my blog and commentating as needed. So.... now that you got me talking....it will be hard to shut me up... Thanks for opening the technology doors to me!! I appreciate everyone that commented on my blog!!