Thing 23: Where to go from here?

For the rest of the school year, I am going to continue to build my delicious bookmarks and try to get a good set of resources together for next year. I have already been discussing using delicious with my department in an order to share math resources. I am also going to work on getting my wiki/blog ready for next year. I think it is going to be a great tool. As the at-risk teacher, it is important that I keep parent up to date on assignments and offer my students extra resource they can access at home. Finally, I am going to start making mathcasts for some basic topics I know my students struggle with (fractions, decimals, percents and intgers). I might try to get a few of my students this year to make some for me!

I will be using Flickr to share pics with family and friends. I will also continue to explore the sites I have been exposed to in this class and revisit how I can use it to challenge my students to go make their learning their own (mathcasts, podcasts, wikis). I am lucky to have an administration that really values technology. We are already planning to attend a seminar on using technology to teach math. I have also decided to get my Masters degreee in Educational Technology. Hopefully this class has given my a head start!

I think I will become a cheerleader for web 2.0 in my building. My position allows me to talk and share information with a wide range of teachers. I will continue to share my ideas with them and hopefully a few will take this class as well. Maybe we can start a staff message board or at least all join delicious. We already use google docs for staff surveys and sharing information. Hopefully this is only the beginning.