Alas, Tech Camp is Over
…For now!
This is a great picture and I think representative of the relaxed atmosphere. Now this was my kind of professional development: smart people, cool tools, very high expectations for learning, and fun.
I took a lot of notes today! The morning started with RSS (Really Simple Syndication), which was something discussed in classes for my library media specialist certification. Today was the day that it really dawned on me how useful they could be. Now I have iGoogle set up and Google Reader, and have quite a few RSS feeds coming in. I’ve also got some feeds coming up in a widget on the blog.
We also went over the basics of podcasting, and more importantly what equipment our school needs and how to go about procuring it. I’ve taken the podcasting class before, but I am signed up for it again this summer. I’m determined to get this going with the upper grade students, so I really need to sharpen my podcast production skills.
A refresher of netTrekker was much needed, and we worked more on our blogs. I also set up a wiki, which is still in a very fledgling stage. I hope to get the faculty interested in editing it throughout the year to come up with a sort of comprehensive vertical grade planning wiki. More to come on that later…*crosses fingers*
What a great week! I’ve even got a book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson, and a nifty framed certificate complete with the Nerd Herd avatars. 
June 20th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Will Richardson has a great blog. He is a keynote speaker at many conferences.His site is at http://weblogg-ed.com/
Glad you had a good experience.
June 21st, 2008 at 9:46 am
Laura:
Your blog looks great! Let’s keep in touch regarding our grade-level/schoolwide planning wikis–great minds think alike
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Freda