Time to get to work
I began the summer by reading Will Richardson’s book “Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for classrooms.” Before I read it, I considered myself a new (I just finished my first year) but technology savvy teacher. Frankly, I have had a headache since I put it down.
In the meantime, I have been (as Will suggests) reading other edublogs, playing with Flickr, thinking through Wikis. Still, the headache remained (at least it didn’t get any worse).
Then I read an inspiring post on G-town Talks discussing the cost of avoiding change. After reading and reflecting a bit, I got to the source of my headache: I was resisting change. I was resisting participating in such a community-based set of activities. I was resisting really freeing up my students. I don’t think my motives were bad, but I realized that if I am serious about wanting to reach and engage each and every one of my students, that I had to get myself out of the way.
So, here I am. More as it happens.
