I plan on using e-Portfolios in my classes next year to replace my Interactive Notebooks in an effort to become as paperless as possible.

Classroom2.0

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This is the one area of my life that I am trying to gain in.  My PLN or Personal Learning Network is growing daily.  The best thing about growing my PLN is that I am also incorporating many of these ideas into my classroom and it is “blooming.”  I have incorporated Interactive Science Notebooks after exploring them on several blogs, a wiki, and a Ning.  They are going great in the classroom and the more I read about them, the more I tweak them to make them better.  I have also set my freshman classes up on Discovery Streaming and have opened a whole new world for them.  The ideas have come from blogs and webinars right here at Discovery Education.  I am in the process of trying to incorporate 2 new Web 2.0 tools in my classroom before the Christmas holidays and I am learning through my Diigo groups that there are plenty out there to choose from.  Next semester I am going to try to use Google docs to share lab information throught my classes.  I have spent time looking at YouTube videos on Google docs.  For every tool out there, there is a perfect network to help you learn it.  With all this at our disposal, our classroom is limitless.