I know some about social bookmarking sites but haven’t set one up for myself yet. I have a bookmarking site for my students, www.portaportal.com/allenmr but I can’t wait to use www.diigo.com. This social bookmarking site seems like it offers so much more and I can see huge potential for this in teaching! I love that it lets you highlight and bookmark webpages, write notes within the pages and share them with your friends. You can join groups of people that have the same interests as you and share ideas with them. I previewed the demo and then checked out the groups and I there were a lot of groups discussing web 2.0 and technology education. I thought this would also be another great place to share ideas with teachers from all over.

This could be a terrific tool for students who are working on group projects- sharing ideas and resources- learning about collaboration. This tool would be easier for a high school student than elementary but it really hits home with the concept of Web 2.0. I wish there was some sort of collaborative site that elementary students could use. Any thoughts or suggestions?

RSS feeds are addicting! I just signed up for a bloglines account and opened my eyes to the wide world of information provided by RSS. I have been in the dark for too long. I love the fact that I can get the most up to date posts on technology, cooking, news, weather and whatever else I’m interested in. Once I signed up for an account I could have previewed the different blogs and sites for hours but talk about information overload!

I’m just getting started, but how do teachers or technology educators possibly keep up with all this great tech stuff? I am constantly asking myself this question. I think this is one way for me, to learn about technology. I especially like David Warlick’s blog. He spoke at the PWCS Technology Conference in August 2007 and he did a great presentation on Web 2.0. He shared his knowledge on how this can be used with students and the power of the internet on writing and publishing, thoughts, and sharing knowledge. It was very interesting.

As I am learning, there is a wide world of web 2.0 tools that I am just beginning to explore.  I am very excited to begin my first blog.  This blog will be a place to share technology student work, activities, and commentary related to technology lessons students are working on.  This will be a work in progress and might change as I learn more about blogging.