Thing 23! I made it!

Oh wow, have I learned a lot in the past few months. And I feel like the best part of it all is that this is just the beginning. I remember something from the first thing- something about how so many times we teachers are trying to fight technology in our classrooms (mp3 players, phones, etc)... when it's really not going away, and we need to embrace it and use it to our advantage. Using the students' desire to be interacting with technology constantly is turning into one of the best ways to reach them. I graduated from high school less than 10 years ago, and I feel like even in that short time, SO much has changed in the way teenagers think and work and live.

Many of the things I've learned about are things I can use both in my classroom and in my life outside of school. I've pretty much become obsessed with my delicious and bloglines accounts- a lot of the things we've done seemed like work at the beginning, but now have become part of my everyday or every week routine. The program has helped to changed the way that I view the web in general. I used to think of it as a place to find information... now I see that it's really more of a set of tools than a destination. And those tools are getting more useful and plentiful every day! How great is that??