It's everywhere! Journalism files stories using google docs, flikr and YouTube in Am Lit, ning TK for lit discussions, publish our "paper"

my PLN constantly gives me new ideas and feedback, I collaborate with teachers in other countries

my kids travel anywhere with me on the web2.0 carpet ride.Learning a language with REAL purpose/connections.

lbilak, I love that way of putting it..well said

i love being able to go to you tube and find the videos to go along with some of the songs we're doing in music class...helps a lot!

My district is still not very connected so my students - and colleagues - benefit from my experiences translated into their lives.

It's an indirect experience for them, but still a powerful one.

Very valid dmcordell

i think it has impacted my univ. class bcuz i am training tchrs to use these tools

In early 90s I was teaching in a school not connected. (duh!) I was, through Carroll College. I would go to Lynx and telnet and find stuff

that supported my classroom. FTP images, and designed an ever changing daily bulletin board outside my room based on what was going on. We

were part of the Kobe earthquake (usgs data, pictures, stories posted), JASON project (back in the day!) & students & teachers LOVED it.

Everyone felt very connected, and for the year I went home each night, got new content, printed, posted each day. It was an amazing way to

share in a non-sharing era. I was non-renewed that spring. (So were the 5 ppl who had my job before me, and the folks who had it after me

Each of us thought it would be different, but it was a sacrificial position the union let go to keep costs down. Great first job, eh?

My kids blog and comment, writing for authentic and varied audiences. Writing is at an all-time high, both in quantity and quality, and is

being done voluntarily outside of school hours. My class "time" has no boundaries; my students interact with this text late at night and on

weekends. (I can't keep up with the "approval queu"! Seriously!)

We are connecting with other music students via skype and blogs. My students now have a broader understanding of what being a music stu. is