FINALLY!!!

I must say, I had a few pleasant surprises while writing this blog. I think my two favorites were the the Wiki and LiveBinder blogs. The whole time I was doing those, I kept thinking about how much easier my Education 2100 class would have been had we known/been able to use them, and, if it makes college life easier, it's BOUND to make high school a breeze! It has really re-enforced what I knew already that there is always an easier way to do things. It just takes a little digging sometimes to find it. The only draw back to 23 Things was how tedious the work was. If there is any way to condense it down, I'm sure it would be. But, maybe this is the condensed version. Seeing as how it started out as 43 Things, It might very well be.

As far is helping me develop as a teacher, this exercise helped me to better understand that, while I will be the only teacher in my classroom, I'm not the only teacher WITH a classroom. There are other people out there that are writing about similar problems that I will need to address in my own class. Which is nice because, if other people are blogging about their own experiences, chances are that they are researching the same things I am. So, if nothing else, it helps give me a starting point for my own research. Knowing that it's ok to comment on other's blogs is nice too. It helps to establish an open dialog so that many different ideas can be filtered through all at once. It should be called Brainstorming 2.0, really.

Overall, this has been a great experience, and, I have enjoyed learning about all of these great new ways to convey ideas to students and other teachers. I'm excited to see how this turns out! So, to answer the question of is this the end or only the beginning, I will quote from the song "Closing Time" by Semisonic- "Every new beginning forms from some other beginnings end."

Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!