Social Bookmarking

I just started really looking at the social bookmarking sites yesterday and started to use Delicious.  I see this as something that will be real handy for me becasue I travel a lot in my building.  Although I am on the same login at each computer, not all of my favorites will stay with me depending on which computer I am on.  On my Delicious account, I have already made about 7 different tags.  The one I am most excited about right now is the "word activiy" tag that I made.  I am teaching a low level reading course this year and am always looking for new things I can use with my students.  Now I have an easy way to store all of the websites that I feel can be useful.  I also used the social end of Delicious to find word activity websites that other people recommended.  I have added a few of them.  Again, it's great to see what I am learning in this class is being practical. 

A week of work done

I have found the past five days busy, but rewarding.  I thought I was on the computer a lot before this class, but now it's like double time!  I invested in a laptop back in April and I am really happy I did it.  I can still do some of this work without hibernating in the computer room away from my wife and son.  It has been interesting reading other people's posts and discovering Google docs.  I can see my self using that a lot and even using it with my classes.  I am now working off of the Safari browser.  I have always used Internet Explorer and Firefox.  I think Safari will be a good browser for this class because I can go back to the main screen and easily go from one spot to the other.  Well, it's Sunday morning and I have to do a few things before I can enjoy football.  Have a nice Sunday!

Let the Journey Begin

It has been six years since I have graduated with my bachelors degree in special education from UW-Oshkosh.  I kept telling myself I would like to work towards my masters someday, but never really knew what I wanted to go for.  During the past year, I have spoken to a few people who have received their master degrees online and I thought that was an interesting way of going about it.  Although those people didn't do their work through Cardinal Stritch, they did give me the idea of doing a program like this one I am currently in.  I did a lot of research to finally decide to go with Stritch.  I really wanted a program I felt would be able to benefit me now and in the future. 

I currently am a high school learning disabilites teacher and I have been working at my current building for five years.  It has amazed me how much technology has been added since I came to Appleton West High School.  When I think back to my first year at West, Interwrite and Smart Boards were not in any rooms.  Computer projectors were also non-existent.  If you visit my school today, they are in practically every classroom.  Our school has recently been wired for school wide wi-fi.  This exciting new addition has made it possible for staff and students to bring any wi-fi device to school to use as a working tool.  After attending class Tuesday, I am excited to see where this program takes me.  In these short few days I have encountered things I have never used before such as Google Docs and Illuminate.  I already can tell there will be many practical tools that I will get from this class and use in my ever changing school.  Here's to keeping up with students.... let the journey begin!