How I got here…

Posted on July 26, 2007 
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Ok, so as an ICT specialist I feel that I should have been here a long time ago. As a person at the early end of digital nativeness (born in ‘79…close enough…) I should have been doing this a really long time ago. But I hadn’t but I am now. I tried to figure out why I hadn’t been here and I guess it’s just that I didn’t know where to go or what to do or if I really had anything important to say. That all came to a head at 5am yesterday.
Earlier this year I went to the Learning@School conference held in Rotorua each year. One of the keynote speakers was David Warlick from the USA. Never has it all made sense. Integrating and using technology in classrooms is easy, but to hear someone I had (in all honesty) never heard of, make it sound easier was profound. It made me think about where the kids I’m teaching are going to be technology wise in 5, 10 and 20 years time (hence the name Unknown Future).
So I subscribed to David’s blog (2centsworth) and read it when I get the time. I also subscribed to his podcast (Connected Learning). I also won a new ipod 2nd gen nano. So I put his podcasts on to it. This brings me to 5am yesterday.
Lying awake I decided to listen to David. He was podcasting from a conference in Connecticut. It was about blogging and it made sense. It’s seems like such a great tool to engage kids in literacy. The immediacy, the real audience, the communication and most importantly the naturalness of it all. Kids communicate these days in text speak, instant messaging and in this whole new language that to some of my collegues is still as foriegn as some Outer Mongolian lost language.

So….I’m here. I’m going to be reading blogs, about blogs, writing blogs, adding comments. I’m going to be writing things I learn, linking things that I think are important. This is going to be my journey into Web 2.0.

First Goal: We have a coaching system of PD at our school. We meet with a buddy to talk about achieving a professional goal. My goal is to get my coaching session to be blog-to-blog as opposed to face-to-face and see how it goes. We meet in quality learning circles each week (a group of 8 other teachers) and I would like to invite them to comment and add to our blog.
Purpose: To show my collegues that blogs are a tool for professional communication and easy to use.

Wish Me Luck…

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