Summertime soon.

Another inspired morning...I really like the small group learning format.  Blogger has a lot of functions that I was unaware of.  I’m still not sure how I’ll be using it, but I do hope to incorporate blogs this year.  This is the same deal with google maps.  I’ll definitely find a place in my one Social Studies class for it.  Right now I’m thinking of setting up something with Goddard on it and lines showing how far it is do different areas we study throughout the year.(About 7000+ miles to Mesopotamia!)  The information on Google research was totally new to me.  How cool.  Google is just improving daily which makes me think it was a good move for us to be going to google docs.  It does a great job getting us more into the 21st century learning.  I love how it integrates so many different things.  I don’t really do a lot of research in my classes at this time, but I can see it being used in some way or another.  As for easy bib, I’ve used it myself for my master’s classes so nothing new there.  I just love learning new things(especially with technology!)

Now for the afternoon.  Getting a little sleepy...mere hours away from the beginning of summer.  Learned another new/awesome thing...Google Forms! I’m already working on a parent survey to get information like e-mails and phone numbers in a single place.  I plan on using it a lot during the year for quizzes and tests.  Time for a busy summer.

Day 1...Inspired?

Well, I really didn't know exactly what to expect from this Inspired Learning Cohort.  And now...well I have a better idea, but I'm still a little unsure.  I'm really hoping this will be something that will work well with the fact that in Science we're working with a new curriculum.  Obviously, technology will be a part of that curriculum, and hopefully this will help me put together the 3 ideas of content, pedagogy, and 21st century learning.  Right now, it's hard to think much about the technology as I'm rather unsure of what I'll be teaching next year.  I'd really like this work to be applicable to what I'm doing and it seems like that's a goal of the instructors as well.  So, I'm at a point that I'm hoping for big things, but am still a little unsure and overwhelmed a bit.  1 day until summer actually starts!(but who's counting)