A New Year, New Goals (thanks to teach42)
Today I finished up a class I taught with teachers on Web 2.0 tools for classrooms. One teacher asked how youo go about finding and searching names for people on Plurk. So, I searched put, yes you guessed it… Teach42, Steve Dembo. This led to looking up what he Plurks about. This was the latest Plurk:
PLURK POLL: Share a goal that you have for the upcoming school year.
I thought about his Plurk on the ride home from the training. After paying the babysitter, greeting kids, and opening mail, I sat down to tackle the 73 unread Plurks from the day. (For those of you who use Plurk I bet you are impressed there were only 73. Shows what I did on my lunch break. Steve’s Plurk came back to mind and I thought again about goals.
What I came to realize is that while I teach and train people about the many great resources on the web I still need to use them more frequently and in more creative ways. Additionally, I really need to blog and as DEN LC member, I should be blogging here. I have always struggled with blogging because I still cannot imagine who or why anyone would care about my day-to-day professional life, or personal life. However, like all new things I have come to be addicted to, you must give it a whirl to know if it is for you. So, a part of my goal for the year will be to blog more, hold me to it. The other part of the goal I have set is the implementation of the web 2.0 tools with kids. I hope to post the results here too.
Here’s to a great year! Thanks teach42 for the inspiration to begin.
