I know that I’m catching on to this whole web 2.0 phenomenon a bit late, but I couldn’t be more excited about the possibilities it holds for my classroom, and my life. I just finished Will Richardson’s book (so much to learn!) and I was so inspired (and awed) by the epilogue, that I want…
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Hmm… It seems that this wonderful presentation template that I love so much makes it kind of hard to comment. And now that I know “How to comment like a king (or a queen!),” I really don’t want to miss out on this feature. When I chose this template, I didn’t really realize that the…
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It has taken about 5 lessons for Peggy and I to get the students up and running with their blogs and the larger concept of current events. In retrospect, there are quite a few things I would do differently. First of all, I would have actually started with the IT tools first (which goes entirely…
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Boy am I excited! The Social Studies Meets IT blog was actually read and commented on by someone outside of our school community! He writes: “Hi, I’m a secondary Social Studies teacher in Missouri. I have just recently started utilizing blogs in my classroom, and was very impressed by yours. I was wondering how you…
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How great is this?! Working in international schools often means that we can be isolated from professional development opportunities like this. I’m so excited to see that it will be online (and hopefully at a time when I’m awake). ——————————————————————————————————————————- Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006” convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the…
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