Robin Talkowski’s Blog

In manufacturing, the “just in time” philosophy means that the materials needed for the production process arrive exactly when they are needed.  The same philosophy applies to presenting ideas to teachers for how technology and web 2.0 resources can be used.  I often post a url to a site I have found helpful to me.  When I hear back from teachers it is often to mention how they were just thinking about a new way to do something when they received my e-mail.  This happened most recently with the newspaper generator (http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp).  I shared an “article” I had my students generate, and I received a reply e-mail from a teacher saying how perfect it was for helping her students connect the answer to who, what, where, when, and why questions in a coherent article.  The students loved the idea of their own newspaper article that looked like the real thing.

The fact that this idea arrived in her e-mail mailbox just in time for her classroom focus made all the difference.