I just read a recent blog entry written by Will Richardson. Though I don’t always agree with Will, I do think he hit this on the head! We can’t filter everything our students see in real life, so why filter everything on the web? Even if we do filter for students, why are some schools filtering content for their staff members? Aren’t these the same people that we hire to put in charge of educating our children?

Filter Fun by Will Richardson

I would like to read/visit other wc blog sites. But, I must not be doing this correctly in terms of finding the sites.  I’ve tried a search-no luck. I’ve looked around the wc site, but haven’t found any links to other sites from our group. Do you have a suggestion?

Thank you Cindy! After reading your post I went back to Twitter and did some searching by topic. I think I have found some interesting people to follow. I now have a renewed interst in twitter. This may just turn out to be more useful then I first thought!

Well, I just got my override to Bess so I can twitter.  Logged in today and started to really set it up.  I already sent another teacher a suggestion about teaching properties…..I see this as being very helpful!

I think the whole concept of twittering is really neat.  It really depends what your purpose is which determines the relevance in your life.  I have just been experimenting the last few weeks by posting what I am doing.  I found a neat person to follow who has many educational and thought provoking links.  I was very excited to have 3 followers who I don’t even know.  I will keep twittering and do see a value in asking questions of others and sharing information.  It  is just hard to put yourself out there.

The jury is still out for me on Twitter- admittedly I may not be giving it enough of a chance professionally. I can probably be won over, but not sure yet.

I’m feeling kind of guilty for not posting sooner.  I just don’t think I’m the journaling type.  When I look back at my schooling, I remember dreading the classes where I had to keep a journal.  I always ended up making it up the day before it was due.  Though I like to write, I’d much rather tell someone something in person than write about it. 

I’ve had a pretty eventful first 2 weeks.  I am settling into my extra duty…I have a period every other day devoted to “tech support”.  I spent that time this week trying to figure out a smartboard malfunction.  It turns out that if you are running a projector and a laptop through a power bar you need to have a heavy Read the rest of this entry »

Searching for specific key words brought me the most satisfaction with Twitter. I typed in Down Syndrome and was able to find others talking about related issues. I really don’t have the time or interest to read everyone’s personal journals about their day. By weeding some of that out, I did find the whole Twitter experience more to my liking.

Checked out twitter and created an account.  Not sure how to create a profile, though.  I did post a question (to the world) how to do so.  May have  a response soon.

Slightly overwhelming-lot to check out.  Definitely has possibilities.