I am very hopeful that at least some of my attempts today to complete our assignments are okay.  I do not believe I was successful at commenting on a post.  I do believe I was successful at getting onboard with Twitter (but am not sure that my profile is there).  I am also hopeful that I am posting this entry into the correct section (WilliamsonConnects! as opposed to my personal blog).  Anyway, I am excited to finally be at this point and can’t wait to see what happens next!  

I’ve began to use Twitter – to be honest, I’m not sure how it will fit into what I do in the classroom.  But I’ll keep an open mind and continue to explore and see what I can gain from it.  I was wondering how everyone else was feeling about Twitter. Here’s something I found about Twitter that I thought others might find interesting: http://www.edutopia.org/twitter-professional-development-technology-microblogging

I have been experimenting with ScribeFire for about a year now. I am currently using version 2.3 and think it’s amazing. If you are a blogger that uses firefox, I can’t begin to tell you how awesome ScribeFire is! The tagline on their website is “Post to your blog without ever leaving Firefox.” That’s just why I like it so much. I can set it up to post entries to all of my blogs (yup, that’s right, I have multiple…). Then when I click the scribefire button, I can create a post and choose which blog it should post to. No need to login to each blog’s “dashboard” separately!!

I really like this blog post, “Using Google Docs to record, improve, and increase feedback.”

Feedback throughout the writing process is so important for our students. Google docs allows us to “chime” in at any time and keep up with student work. I love that we can follow a student from start to finish online, without having to print each draft.