You’ve Got A Friend…
The great news is there’s another teacher in my district who is interested in breaking open the Pandora’s Box of collaborative technology for elementary students and teachers. She’s completing a program for Media Specialists and hopes to switch from a classroom position to a Media Center position next year. (I’ve noticed that media specialists and ed. tech. teachers can become the Wonder Twins for finding/organizing information if given the opportunity to work together.) The wonderful news is that she’s also Here for the Revolution (check out the button contest for NECC) and is a newbie just like me! I convinced her to join me at the Students and Electronic Media: Teaching in the Technological Age seminar at Princeton University on May 2nd. She already follows Kathy Schrock, who is presenting at that the seminar, and we’ve promised to share the cool “stuff” we find along the way with each other.
After I spoke with my new Media Specialist friend, I realized it was difficult to decide which tools are good, important or useful for my students (and me). I’ve spent the last few weeks gathering information, but left myself little time to weed through it. My del.icio.us is pretty unorganized…I don’t even know what I’ve saved so far!
You Can’t Live Without…
So I’m asking you to think back to when you started out in the social networking world…back when the possiblities practially caused an explosion in your mind…what tools did you need? Where should we start? Please suggest tools/sites/blogs you can’t live without. Thanks!
My List (under construction):
Twitter
Del.icio.us
Google Reader
People who support this journey!
