I was chatting with my girlfriend yesterday and telling her how my web/technology knowledge has tripled in just the past six months. Now that I’m not taking any grad classes, now can I fill up my time questing for knowledge. I shared with her about my webpage, my new blog, my nings and how much I adore twitter.
Tonight I participated in my first Women of Web 2.0 live chat at http://www.edtechtalk.com/. I saw so many names of people I follow at twitter. Some of my “tech heroes” were there, Jen Wagner, MariaK and more. I listened to everyone, and boy, did I feel out of my league. I have SO much to learn!
Will I ever have enough time to learn everything I need? But then, perhaps I need to think about what I am using and not worry about the rest right now. My next immediate goal is to get a webcam so that I can start using Skype. Hopefully I will have it in a week or two. My class really misses our classmate who moved to Germany at Christmas time.
As far as Moodle, Yugma and some of the other things that were mentioned in the chat. I’m not going to race to learn it all. I want to effectively use what I know, learn a little more and enjoy the day in and day out activities of my kindergarten class. Perhaps sometimes I get a little too caught up in the technology. I need to be a great teacher first, but one who effectively uses some cool technology.
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Everybody’s Tech » Stretching
// Apr 16, 2008 at 2:43 am
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John Schinker
// Apr 16, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Take your time, Amie. This can be a confusing community for the newcomer. Don’t feel like you have to get it all at once. One of the things that initially impressed me is that they’re so approachable. While they’re giants in Twitter and on podcasts and in Ustream, they’re just regular people. Most of them are very nice, extremely helpful, and extraordinarily welcoming.
I would recommend a headset before a webcam, though, if Skype is the goal. Even a cheap $10 headset will make a dramatic improvement for audio conferencing, and you can always add video later.
Welcome to the adventure!
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Cheryl Oakes
// Apr 16, 2008 at 7:22 pm
You are so right on with your beginning of this journey. Take your time and try everything, but always ask yourself, what is the purpose of using a new tool.
There are so many tools we have used and set aside after more scrutiny. That is NOT a bad thing. That is using all our higher level thinking skills and making choices.
One of my all time favorites even after one year is VoiceThread.
Hope to see you back again at WOW2.
Cheryl
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Eric Brunsell
// Apr 17, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I love your comment about having the time to learn now that you don’t have grad classes to get in the way! (This, is from someone that teaches grad classes…and agrees with you completely)
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