There's a light...

It's a faint light, but there's a light nonetheless. After a few of the short sessions this afternoon, I'm beginning to gain a clearer view of how to integrate more of these tools into my teaching. I know that its going to take time but I'm hopeful that by the end of this year I am using more web based tools to teach my students not only how to research but how to verify their research and maybe even have some fun doing it.

I'm a slow learner myself, so I know that when I go to my staff with some of these tools I'll need to be patient and stress that these are simply tools that will help their students to learn in a global setting and, in the process, make them global learners as well.

I'd like to try to resurrect the blogmeister that I set up last year with my 5/6 class and use it to explore more of the web-based tools. I'm hoping to not only show basics to my staff but introduce them to more tools that may be more useful to them on a regular basis, like using VoiceThread to change up how bookmaking or storytelling is accomplished. I'm hoping that in revamping our school website that my staff will try a little blogging of their own and brainstorm ways to use their pages differently. Stay tuned...