Day+One+Aha!!

My Aha is that I am more tech illiterate then I led myself to believe. Yet, willing to jump right in... I hope I am able to access this new learning at my next place of employment! ~Beth Rosin

So... you have one day under your belt of Information Technology for Teaching and Learning! Congrats! What is one aha!! you had today? One thing you KNOW you'll find useful in your future?

My aha was about web technology in general. I love to be organized and I didn't realize there were online tools that could be used and accessed anywhere. I am excited about wiki and delicious.

One thing I KNOW I will find useful in the future is delicious. I have already started using it as a way to put all the course websites into one spot. Sarah

The process has been a L-O-N-G one.New vocabulary. Newskills. I hope that it will all stick!!! Excited to explore new sites..after all the readings!!! Margaret

Teresa, thanks for all this great information. One aha is wikispaces. I've been on wikispaces before many times, but never saw the importance of them. It seems like it is similar to google docs in that many people can edit, but it is building a webpage rather than a document. I will be trying to do the first assignment using a wikispace and using it in my classroom by linking the page to the class blog. Thanks! Jen

Loving this so far. My aha moment is with it all. I am excited to learn more about some of the tools that I already use in my classroom and some things that I'm not even aware of yet. Beth

My day one aha is less of a realization and more a sense of relief. During last week's course I was constantly weighed down with all I didn't know. That sounds dramatic, but after being a lover of libraries and books for many years and a teacher I thought I knew more about libraries and their role in schools than I actually did. I love the learning but it was a lot to take in. This week, thanks to the prowess of my current librarian, I am finding I know about a lot of the topics and resources we are learning about. It is already feeling good to connect things I already know how to do with concepts I learned last week to see how it all comes together. This is a long way of saying I'm not as far behind as I thought I was. During the last year I really tried to incorporate more technology into my classroom and I'm excited to learn more that I can apply, whether in my classroom this year or in a library in the near future. Laura- Added by Teresa, deleted during class accidentally :) Yippee! Thanks, Teresa!--Laura