This is the first post I wrote for this blog, explaining to myself and those who wonder why I started abloggin’. It’ll stay up top for now.
To Whom it May Concern (only my curriculum supervisor and principal, I’m sure):
I’ve decided to blog my obligatory report from the 2006 New Jersey Association of School Librarians annual conference because, well, for me it has been all about Web 2.0, otherwise known as the read/write Web, something I think my students need me to know about. So it’s about time I started blogging. This is my debut!
Because I have immersed myself while here in issues related to what Ross Todd calls “productive pedagogy” and technology that will make learning better for my students, I have not only debuted in the blogosphere here at WordPress, but I now have a del.icio.us social bookmarking account, a Flickr account, and an RSS feed through Bloglines. I can never turn back! Nothing will ever be the same in my life or in my teaching!
Much of this is a mandatory report of the conference, so if you are here looking for great insights into Web 2.0 or how to use the read/write Web in education, you are much better off checking out David Warlick, Will Richardson or Wes Fryer (see how much I learned!). At this point, this is merely a tool, a way in which I might demonstrate to my district how to use the new Web as a communications & collaboration tool. No brilliant use of the tools or seminal thinking. Just a start, that first leap of faith.
