Time to Catch Up
I have been in the throes of Student Exhibition, and still have more work to do, but it’s about time I updated!
Last week, I attended the Memphis City School Annual Technology Conference. I also presented both days of the conference, hoping to get techie teachers excited about the possibilities blogging can open up for their classrooms or schools.
Suzanne and I presented on Thursday, and I went solo on Friday. Overall, it seemed that many of the session attendees were keen to get started on Edublogs, which was the site and guide that we provided for setting up a teacher blog. I am hoping to hear from people there and to see what they are blogging about, or how they are involving their classes in blogging.
On Thursday night, I also attended a webinar hosted by Edutopia (GLEF). “Small World: How to Bring Your Students in the Global Online Classroom” was a conversation with Will Richardson, author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, and the hand behind Weblogg-ed. It was inspiring! If I was committed to changing what is possible for my students in the 21st century at Downtown Elementary, I am even more. At least, I feel energized. It was very motivating to meet with about 200 other like-minded educators and share questions with Mr. Richardson. I’ve already got some ideas brewing for blogs and wikis, thanks to his examples.
Student Exhibition was yesterday, as well as Family Math, Science, and Technology Night. Those deserve their own posts, methinks.
