Thing 2 - Google Docs screenshot

I anticipate google docs being helpful mostly for providing a means of sharing documents with myself and other members of our science department, rather than using email and/or flash drives for sharing documents. I do not forsee me using this with my students very often, but I do intend to show my students that this is an option for them to use when completing a group project or lab report. I can also see this as helpful for collaborating with my family for annual trips, like the above Boyne trip that we have planned.

Thing 1 - Delicious

Click the following link to access my delcious public bookmarks http://www.delicious.com/mrlandryshs

This site should be extremely helpful for teaching as each machine I use has a separate set of bookmarks and I often forget which machine has which bookmark. Instead of having to send links through email, I can now log them into delicious and access them anywhere. Once again, using this more streamlined process should free up time to do other things.

Thing 1 - Shortcuts

Using these shortcut keys will certainly speed things up. I look forward to using the B & W commands in powerpoint as well as the windows M & windows shift M to minimize & maximize more effectively. I also used the ctrl z & y features when working with the above document and will continue to use it. I then saved my new doc. using the f12 shortcut

Why Blogging - Thing 0

It appears that anything makes a good blog; it just matters what your flavor is.

I feel that blogging for school purposes is a great opportunity to bridge the communication gap that often happens between parent and teacher as the age of the students goes up. I like the idea of being able to use one media to relay daily information all at once and that students can access this info at any time as well.

Blogs make it so anybody can publish information that is relevant to them, regardless of writing ability and access to a publisher.

Welcome

Welcome to my new blog for 21 Things for the 21st Century Educator. I am taking this class to catch up on my technology usage abilities that have slipped slightly over the past several years. I used to be pretty tech. savvy and feel I'm now average. Hopefully this class will help move me back into the above average catergory.