October sent me to the Closing the Gap conference where again I was reminded of the power of Twitter. One of my friends on Twitter noticed that I was at CTG and so was someone else she followed so we set up a meet at the "top of the stairs" in the hotel. Which is when I met Karen Jankowski. We had so much in common and we never would have met if it wasn't for Twitter. I was also introduced to several new blogs which I now follow: Free resources from the Net (for Spec Ed) being my favorite. During this conference I was also blown away my some assistive tech devices and software I saw. I joined my first ning: Assistive Tech. Shortly after that I joined a couple of other nings: Il-TCE, and SL in Education. The other tool I finally started using was del.icio.us. It finally became clear to me as I sat in session at CTG how I could use this tool to benefit my district and colleagues. I created an account and tagged all of the sites I was introduced to in sessions as CTG, so my colleagues could benefit from my account.
November led me to the discovery of Google Groups. Now I realize that this is old technology but it was the first time that I tried to use them in my school district. They worked very well for what we needed and showed the admin what we could do if we were able to collaborate more.
December was a mash up of so many tools. Every time something new comes across Twitter, I feel compelled to check it out. My friends there seem to have a lot more time than I do to surf and find the "cool stuff". My newest discovery via friends on Twitter is twhirl. Twhirl is a twitter interface that sits as a separate application on your computer. It runs in both Mac and PC. I like this much better than TwitterFox or Twitterific, both of which I have tried and discarded in the last year.
This brings me back to January. It's hard to believe another year is behind me. Apparently I can't even catch my breath before my next adventure begins. It is January 1 and I am already starting to learn new things!
Thanks for taking this trip down memory lane with me...see you again soon.
1 comment:
Hi Anne. How very encouraging to read this blog post! Sometimes I wonder about the time and effort I invest in my own blog and wonder if I should continue. So, to read what you wrote about it means a great deal! Now you know that something you wrote in this post has made a positive difference.
It sounds as though 2007 was a fruitful year for you. I hope that 2008 will be even more so. --Paul
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