Using Wiki's to help

One of the things that I liked about last nights class was the fact that it caused our advocacy group to do some thinking. We were ready to go ahead and start working on individual pieces of our position paper, when someone said "hey why don't we place it on our pbwiki site and edit it as a group."

That's when it clicked for me this is what Wiki's can do, it opens up a world where we don't have to all be in the same room working together on the paper. To be able to have the option no matter where in the world you are to create, edit, colloborate, and anything else is just so cool and powerful. This reminds me of something out of those future movies...it's now becoming reality.

I can't imagine where times are going with this...read/write/web is going to become such an integral part of our lives...people get ready to shift!

Some New Ideas

I was talking to a friend of mine this week, and we were talking about blogging and how you could use it in the schools and classrooms. He is a supervisor of a virtual school, anyway we got to talking about blogging and what we are working on in class. He was explaining to me about this new program that you can use to set up an audio file on your blogging. Anyway, stay tuned I'm going to see if I take blogging to another great level of involvement. I think this is something that if works well can be great for students that perhaps have difficulty typing or may not even to this point have internet access. A cool thought!

Google Reader

I can't get over the amount of "stuff" that is out there that one can do to make the ability to do so much at one time. The ability to multi-task was once something that people could barely do, yet here we are managing at least looking at Dr. Warrick's stuff an unbelievable amount of information.

What does this mean? To me it means we have to be able to continue to keep up the speed we look at the world around us...It is a fast paced place that isn't going to slow down. It was very cool to see all of the things like the reader, docs, and some of the other features that just google offers, however I think one really has to sit down with it and mess with it to really uunderstand it.

Starting the Wiki last night with our group was cool as well. It boggles my mind how easy it is for one to post information for the whole world to see. I think back to when I was in school and wanted to get information I would have to grab the "New Book Of Knoweledge" (remember with the tree on it!) Now we have people in this cohort that are going to post important information that someone may come across on the internet...that's pretty cool to me.

I look forward to continuing to work on this project, and the rest of this semester.

Graduation and Beyond

Saturday was a great day. Pete, his family, and my wife attended the graduation ceremony in Fairfax. At first I wasn't really sure if I wanted to go to it, but it was a great experience. To have my wife there cheering for me as I walked meant a lot. This has been a tough journey for us personally having all of the work that I do as an ITRT, and then having this mounted on top. She was proud and that meant a lot to me. Being there to share the day with friends and family put this all into perspective.

So far the week has been busy trying to get things worked on for the Leadership course, it is keeping me busy. Being an ITRT has really helped me out or at least I think it will. Participating in the Coaches Academy has also been pretty cool.

Gotta tell ya my friend has a blog and I'm really starting to get into this...pretty neat to write down thoughts like this. Why don't I want to write them all paper...who knows perhaps it takes to much time and my hands would hurt...is that being lazy??

Off to watch Deadliest Catch. Enjoy

First Night

Wow! At the start of every semester I feel like holy cow...how will we get it all done? It is amazing though that once we get started how quickly the time flies and how the work somehow always gets done.

This course is going to probably one of the best ones and ones that I have been looking forward to since I heard that we were going to take it.

I look forward to learning a lot and expecting to get a great deal out of it!

What a semester it is going to be...let the good times roll!