Dear Scholars...
Dear
Scholars,Hello! I just got home
from an amazing weekend at the Samoset for the SEED
farewell.
Remember I've told you all about SEED? How this is my "other" job and where I
get to learn from and teach other teachers all about technology in education?
Well, as I told you on Friday, SEED has come to its 6 year ending, and so a
bunch of us got together to reflect, rejoice, and say goodbye to
it.We had this amazing Keynote
speaker, Alan
November,
who works around the world promoting
"effective
use of information and communication technologies that support and enhance
learning for children and communities"
(that's from his website). His talk was absolutely fantastic and
you'll never guess what he was mostly talking about! BLOGS!
He told us that someday everyone will
have blogs. He likened this to a story about when he first got email back in
1985. He told people then that someday
everyone will have
email (remember in 1985, hardly anyone had or knew about
email ). The people he told laughed at him! But now look! So, it's a
pretty sure bet that Mr. November knows what he's talking about when he says
that everyone will have Blogs someday, and we need to start using them
now
with students because this is the language, the
format
that will be part of their future lives.
Anyway, Gwen, my
Regional
Coordinator, raised her hand and told him that
I use a blog with students. Mr. November asked me to come up and show it, so all
these people got to see the work you are doing! I also did a quick "workshop" on
it the following day. Mr. November and
the other teachers were totally blown away by your work! You all are on the
cutting
edge! You already have a blog---you're way
ahead of the future that Mr. November foresees. It is amazing how much work you
have up here and every Friday Update
that you post amazes me with how well you
describe and reflect on your learning.
You have been working so hard and
people from all around the world have gotten to see your successes. Mr. November
is going to show your site when he talks to other teachers around the world, so
your audience is about to get even larger. Just this weekend alone, 50 new
people came to the site. You all ROCK!
You are
amazing!___________Here
are some photos of me showing your
site:
Posted: Sun - April 10, 2005 at 05:52 PM
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