Learning can come from unexpected places!

I knew that by joining TEAM that I would be learning a great deal from the professors, but what I did not expect was to learn from my peers. After speaking to and viewing the blogs and classroom websites of some of my peers I am awed by what I have seen. Maybe because my district is a little "behind the times" when it comes to technology, but I can't believe how my fellow teachers in other districts are using technology in their classrooms. Some of you are doing things with eboards that I never even dreamed about. I love some of the ideas that I've picked up by viewing class websites and can't wait to encorporate them into my website. Just being able to share and collaborate ideas with my peers each week I've picked up a great free site that I never heard of called Photostory. Since then I've shown many teachers in my school what I have learned. I am really glad I decided to take this course.

EEV Workshops

So far I have attented five workshops. They were very informative. I have really learned many diferent and exciting ways to incorporate excel and iMovie into my classroom plans and can't wait to try it out with my kids. The iMovie workshop was great. We learned how to take four minutes of film and transform it with many different tools. I also enjoyed the web 2.0 tools workshop. I learned how to use bubbleshare (a slideshows "to go" tool) to embed a slideshow into my classroom eboard. I also learned about flicker which enables you to annotate a picture, which is great for the students that I teach- which are second language learners. Even though we are only required to attend five, I have signed up for all that I have interests in. These are a great way for those with less experience, like myself, to learn about and "catch up" to others in the class.