Thanks for a great weekend!

Well, I did get home safely, but the airport was crazy. I checked in around 4 pm and went through security to my gate. I was pretty early so I started working and checking e-mail. Soon I was informed that my flight was cancelled due to bad weather. I had to go all the way back out to ticketing to discover that there were no flights to New Hampshire or Boston. I ended up flying into Portland, ME which is about an hour and a half from home and my dear sweet husband drove to Maine with three kids at midnight to pick me up. We got home at 3 am and I slept until 11 am yesterday.

Don't forget to send me your bloglines and blogger address. If I have received it, I have replied to your e-mail and let you know that I got it. You can also let me know what you did in Flickr via e-mail or posting on your new blogs.

I will be blogging over the next week about what we did in class. I will be trying to provide short summaries of Friday night, Saturday morning, etc. with links to relevant web sites. I hope this blog provides examples of how you might use a class blog with your students.
Here is a cool site I happened upon this morning! It is a podcast that uses music to teach vocabulary at The Princeton Review. You can easily subscribe to these podcasts.

Photo at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/545786161/

So what is web 2.0?

Although we have discussed many technologies during the last two days, I have not discussed the actual differences between Web 1.0 and 2.0. In basic terms, Web 1.0 refers to the technologies and web sites that we went to for information only and web 2.0 are the technologies that incorporate collaboration and communication of that information.
Web 2.0 technologies we have talked about:
RSS
Blogs
Wikis
Social bookmarking

Which one of these tools do you see yourselves implementing in your classroom and how might you use it?

Five more days!

Thanks for completing the surveys. They were extremely helpful in planning. I enjoy getting to know each of you a bit through your responses and it is always nice to know what grade levels and subject areas you teach. Most of you are very comfortable with e-mail, general search strategies and bookmarking sites. About half the class has some experience with blogging, WebQuests, and Videostreaming.
When asked what types of things you would like to do with your students, most of you responded with a focus on research strategies. A couple of you also mentioned data gathering and analysis and possible correspondences with "experts." We will be doing some of this on the first weekend.
This class has the most math/science teachers I have ever had in a cohort and I am looking for some special ideas/sites in relation to research and data gathering. The Internet is a prime place for corresponding on scientific projects. Check out this blog from a high school math teacher.

Feel free to respond by adding a comment before we meet this weekend.
You can find my most current version of the syllabus on MyLesley.