I understand and appreciate how important technology is, but it has always seemed cumbersome. This week's activities have been enlightening. When integrating technology into my teaching, I struggle with preparation and execution. I have great resources filed away in my favorites folder. In fact, I have five great lists of favorites on the five different computers I may use throughout the course of the day. The idea of using social bookmarking sites will make it so much easier to organize resources in a central location. The sharing feature will be most useful to use with the other teachers, especially my grade level, at my school. Across the grades, we often come to each other to borrow resources and get ideas for our students.
As far as the online storage possibilities...Watch out flash drive manufacturers!!! Wow! I thought I was cool with my 8 gig flash drive that I found on sale for $20 last Spring. I want my money back! Realistically, it is nice to carry music, movies, and pictures, but past that, free online storage can meet all my needs.
Overall, I'd much rather worry about keeping track of a piece of paper with all of my logins and passwords than worry about what device/computer I have something saved on.
You have a great blog started here - keep it up! I'm glad you are tagging your posts.
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