Google Docs

I have a student teacher from USC this semester. It's hard to believe that I have been teaching long enough now to have a student teacher, but more so that it has been so long since I have graduated. Nathan, the intern, is an advocate for Google docs. I am learning slowly, but learning nonetheless. Everything Nathan does that needs to be checked by me or documents/schedules that I need to share with him we put on Google docs. Here's the cool part (which most people already know if they are familiar with Google docs) is that anyone the document is shared with can edit. So, although I am on a very big learning curve, I am thinking this google doc thing is pretty cool. What I am curious about is if the Learning Management system that my school district has bought will have these same types of tools available? Hmmm...I wonder.

Unplugged from the charger

I have just returned home from the 2011 SCCTE conference at Kiawah Island. As I was moving from room to room between sessions, I started to get that swirl of excitement and inspiration. This year was my first time presenting. A collegue, Deanna Watson, and I presented on collaboration across content lines. It didn't go exactly how I thought it would, but we did it! We will have another opportunity to present in February at our district's instructional fair, so now that we have had a go at it we can make some changes and adaptations to make it better. Anyway, once our presentation was over for some reason I started thinking about what's next.

So here I am! Our school will begin 1:1 computing next year, so I attended a lot of sessions that incorporated technology. I plan to blog about how I incorporate what I learned this year at the conference into my teaching practices.