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 of WebTools4Teaching. I found Cool Cat Teacher blog and added it to my email. (And created this link!) Look forward to studying from this woman who looks 2B an expert. I have so much to learn abt blogging! This new adventure is a way to keep New Mind.

    Being new at something is a tentative, tender thing. We rely on others helping us, and on sharing what we know. One of my fave teachers sez she thinks backward from the end result she hopes to get from her students, imagining each step along the way back  to the moment she first introduces a concept or Lesson Plan. She watches for pitfalls or what-ifs that might occur and plans for those, if possible. I try to do this, too, but only succeed at abt 60 percent. With blogging I’ll be more at about 20%. O-kay.

    And, when it comes to Widgets I am at Ground Zero. I get behind bcuz I cannot find sites that I just visited. (Watching someone else reminded me how to do this.) I can’t find the screen on my computer that GS has on powerpoint on the big screen on display 4us. This frustrates me.

    So. Feelings: 1. pleased abt getting the link 2. frustrated abt not being able to easily find sites & open a screen to view what tchr is showing us 3. kinda helpless and hopeless at not EVEN getting a start at the Widget thingie. But tomoro is another day! And, I still think this blogstuff is cool!

Thanks, Geoff!

    I like this first day of class. I liked watching GS go clickety-click fast as we watched him set up stuff and figured to myself, “Hey, if he can do this, I can do this.” Probably not as fast and not as thoroughly and not as adeptly. But. Eventually. I. Can. Do. This. And, that empowers me.

    I want to be able to use this tool w/my students. I’m doing a semester w/7th graders at SWMS this fall, and I wanna be able to use these tools w/them, to encourage them to blog, thus encourage their writing, and to read what they write.

    Until today I’ve had a disdainful attitude abt blogs, bloggers, thought, “HOW narcissistic!” Hah! Our lives ARE narcissistic. Who’s running around inside our brains all the time, anyway? Only ONE person, and that wud be moi. Humans are wired for narcissism. Nobody else runs our show, the movie of our lives, unless we give our power away.

    When the focus is sharing and connecting, narcissism is a nonissue.

    I’m excited about what we’re doing, and I say thank you, Geoff!