Parents & Computers

I give tours of my school to prospective parents. As such when we get to the room where the computers & art supplies are located they are always very impressed. The room is bright and cheerful, the imacs look great, the idea of collaboration is very evident since art is taught in the same space, and many times our four year old class is on-line visiting sites such as Disney Playhouse. Many parents ask me for recommendations of websites for their own toddlers. I am happy to say that our parents are pleased that the students are on-line and have fast internet connections allowing them to connect with the world. I can't imagine school without this capacity!

Education Blogs

Tonight I checked out all of the blog sites at the end of Richardson's chapter 3. What an education I just received. I've learned so much in just one evening. Teachers from Thailand happy to be Americans again, (thanks Mr. President!). Discussions of Change, and how it is needed and how we as teachers need to embrace it in our classrooms. This has been a terrific evening, can't wait for class tomorrow night!

New found items to try

Tonight I found the link to add tunes to my blog. The library of music was quite extensive, even had oldies that I enjoy. Like on an iphone it was an app created for the blog and has an advertisement if a visitor wanted to purchase the music. I want to explore more apps for this site.
I also added a picture for identification.
There is so much to explore but I have so much other work to do in this semester that I can't spend too much time anywhere.

first class in web 2.0

I'm familiar with Facebook, this is my first excursion into the world of blogs. I'm interested in twitter, and podcasts.
I hope to learn a lot more this semester.