Try the Ning

I've been writing this knowing full well that it's probable that no one reads this blog, especially since there's so many fine bloggers out there -- educational bloggers, that is. But, what the hey, you never know. That's why I was so surprised to find that someone, who had heard about my wiki and ning from the Trinity talk visited me at the Ning and left me with a juicy site to explore. Yea! Maybe more folks will stop by.
Anyway she recommended this site:

http://jenuinetech.com/

There's projects and ideas for K-6 and it's a nice looking site. I'm going to be sending it to our teachers and adding it to the wiki page.

The site is created by Jennifer Wagner, a former tech person, who also has a nice blog.

http://jenuinetech.com/blog/

I'm definitely subscribing.

I Survived (now I can worry about something else)

The presentation went fairly well, considering. I tried not to get discombooberated when I walked into the room and nothing was set up. I tried not to worry that I was going to forget something all through Mass. I tried not to get flustered when links didn't work because the computer I was given was so filtered that it's a wonder it did anything.
Those hardy folks (Cheryl & Marti included) who stuck around to the end seemed to be interested. I should have brought some cookies or something for them as a prize for sticking it out.
Hopefully, those who got the information will be going to the Ning, or at least the Wiki, so that we can get some networking accomplished. If you did -- please spread the word.
In the meantime, thanks be to God and a special shout out to St. Isadore of Seville.

I uploaded the dreaded PowerPoint to Slideshare so I can take it with me wherever I go and just in case anyone wanted to look at it again.

Technology Integration On A Budget

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Okay, I'm going to try to fit on my prezi presentation

http://prezi.com/i78dlm6kqakq/edit/#35

Who's in your classroom Wordle

Here's a wordle I did for the presentation

Slide Share Presentation about Wordle

This is a great Slideshare presentation I found about Wordle.

Thirty Eight Interesting Ways To Use Wordle I

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Here's a nice one I found

Trying not to panic

The countdown clock on my desktop is winding down. Wednesday is coming on like a speeding 8 year old and there won't be any time this weekend to work on it. Today we're at Hershey Park, tomorrow recording. Funny though, the thing I'm most worried about it oversleeping and getting stuck in the construction around Trinity. I don't think I'll oversleep, but I could get stuck finessing the presentation and forget to look at the clock. That's the problem with hyperfocus, it's a little hard to control sometimes. We'll see what happens.

I know, I know...I had all summer

Is it wise to have a person who is so ADHD teaching kids? Do I sympathise too much when they miss a deadline or do I give them more time than they should have to finish things? What is is about deadlines that can first lull me into complacency and then throw me into sheer panic?

I knew about the conference since the spring. "I will have all summer to gather my information and have it all together," I convinced myself. Even though I have lived with myself for ### years I still have a tendency to believe this brain when it lies to me.

Okay, it wasn't really a lie. I did intend to spend my summer doing many things. I always do. And then it's September and I look at the pile of good intentions that were started, but never finished and think, "Well, I can finish these at Thanksgiving."

Truthfully, I did indeed work on my presentation. I did gather buckets and buckets of ideas and information. I did begin working on a webspiration and I did play with Prezi. But the problem is there's so much information there and from the beginning of the summer to the beginning of the fall more was added. Heck, every day something new comes along. How do you zero in on the good stuff and not waste time on the useless?

Oooo, I know, I know -- you rely on others in your group to help you by sharing their experiences, successes and failures.That's why I'm hoping that I can get some folks to network with me and share their amazing stories of educational wonderfulness. Experienced teachers know when things work and when they don't. We know we've done a great job when we see the lights clicking on in the eyes of our little charges and when we're falling flat on our faces when they just sit and look at you (or when they don't if you're in middle school). So help us all out -- do tell.