It has been an interesting month of professional development for me. One of my goals this summer was to spend some time learning how to better integrate technology into my classroom instruction. I was more or less pleased with my first year teaching 8th grade U.S. History but my instruction was extremely traditional. Little did I know just how many technology options there are. The experienced teachers who have been using web 2.0 tools for a while seem so comfortable with everything but for rookies, it's a bit overwhelming.
The best plan seems to be to start slow and build. I am happy to have this blog up and running again and I know that I will do a better job with the blog this year. Being on Twitter has been great. I have learned so much from the amazing educators that I am following. I am also slowly building up my own following (only 45 followers so far).
I am also on Google Reader and have subscribed to around ten interesting blogs which have also been very helpful. The next plan is to choose a couple of web 2.0 tools to try out this school year. That will be the topic of my next post. If anyone is actually reading this, I would love suggestions. Edmodo, voicethread, glogster, and wallwisher are possibilites.
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