REFLECTION

1. I loved the WIKI idea! There were a lot of classroom WIKIs that I would like to model mine after. I liked the video sites and I love the idea of posting a blog as a center with attachments and questions to be answered. I am very excited about having all of the new tech for the classroom! I am a little worried about keeping the content up to date and note letting them get bogged down with unnecessary apps.

2. I think I am ready to move toward a technology driven classroom. I am thinking that we will have lab WIKIs where the kids can post their conclusions, sketches and pics from the work they are doing. We are like I said before going to have more content driven technology centers on both the MacBooks and the Itouches with the blogs and apps available. We are going to share our learning with our classroom learning community as well as our gradelevel learning community through the WIKI and blogs as well. We will use our Social studies time to learn about being a citizen of our class, school, state, country, ecosystem and now the digital community as well.

I took the first 21 things training. I had fun doing it, but didn't use much of it. I think this training, while containing some of the same items, came at a time when I was ready for the information and will be able to use it readily in my classroom! VERY EXCITED!