I'm blogging on Twitter!

I started really investigating this whole Twitter stuff the last few days, and although I'm still a rookie, I guess it really does have some potential in education.

Sometimes I feel like there are so many ways to share what you're doing or what you're thinking, that I get to the point of saying "I don't care." I don't care that you're getting your hair done, or that you're lounging by the pool with your lapdog polishing off a six pack of Miller Lite. Do we really need to know everything that's going on with everyone all the time? This is precisely why I started the process of "defriending" some of my "friends" on facebook this week. I digress. Sorry.

Back to Twitter and its classroom potential....I'd love to get rid of my student portfolios. They are big, bulky, and for a floating teacher such as myself, a logistical nightmare. If I could manage to have my students upload assignments to a Twitter account, I'd lose the stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks of portfolios I lug around every year. Even the day to day paperwork would be considerably less cumbersome if I could find a way to Twitterize my managerial skills.

I'm gonna research it further......

21st Century Literacy

Well, this is my first blog! I'm excited!

This class has been one of five I'm taking this summer, and although I'm inundated with school work, I'm learning a great deal. I guess one of assignments I've enjoyed the most has been the digital storytelling assignment. I had been asking my family for suggestions on what I could do all week and here it was Friday evening and I hadn't come up with anything! When my husband asked if I wanted to check out the new Wegmans grocery store, I was excited but told him I couldn't go because I had to work on the project. We hadn't been able to spend any real time together since all of these classes started, so we were both disappointed. Then he suggested I make a story out of our trip! I was hesitant at first because I wasn't sure that would be "good enough." Regardless, I thought this couple of hours together was something we both really needed, so off we went. It was so much fun to do and the funny part was the Wegmans store manager told me I couldn't take pictures, so that made it even more adventuresome!

I definitely think digital storytelling has its place in my classroom. It adds another dimension to the storytelling experience. Watching the images unfold with the accompanying narration and audio caused me to become much more emotional as well. I was extremely moved by the projects in our class.