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A Furry of Linked Activity!
The last few days have just been jam-packed with exciting, inspiring and motivational activity.
It started with my second attempt at webcasting by interviewing Kim Cofino (see this blog post) which graduated into an Amazing Day.
A day later I find myself in Kim Cofino’s Google Docs Presentation to Parents of the School - helping them to understand what it is that this technology is doing for their children and the possibilities of collaboration that are available for them and what the benefits are, what the safety issues are and what will be done to minimise those risks. Kim used the power of twitter to call on us to help with the presentation and it was really a who’s who of educators in there! From inside the Google Docs Presentation chat Kristin Hokanson asked for people to show up at her presentation to teachers on Social Bookmarking, again presenting with Google Docs. A few hours or so later this culminated in a really great discussion or two about how educators are using Del.icio.us for themselves and in classroom with students. I’ve been using Del.icio.us for a while now but I still learnt a few more cool things that it can do! Google Docs Presentations so needs audio!!
Today I was lucky enough to be bought into the conference call of three of my fellow webcasting academy interns starting their monthly show TeacherTalk, as they chatted to their very first guest, Jennifer Wagner. Jen was sharing with everyone about her technopuds projects such as O.R.E.O project and Salute to Seuss. I am so grateful to Jen and all that she does for connecting teachers and technology, encouraging and motivating us to use technology in the classroom and share it with others at a level that we are comfortable at.
Phew! What a whirlwind of past days. Can you guess that it’s the school holidays?
October 1st, 2007 at 5:18 am
I think what blows MY mind the most is not the tools we are currently using but how quickly the solutions to the problems are found. Today I watched World Bridges on ustream TV wouldn’t it have been cool to be ABLE to have had that earlier this week to pipe out audio / video from the del.icio.us session so those who were participating could have fully done so.
It is an amazing, connected world in which we live.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:35 pm
I, too, am amazed by the amount of learning happening minute by minute. And how our connections keep up apprized of what is available to us. Glad to be part of it all. And very tired.