Well, this has been an interesting week, to say the least! Finally completed my reading of the textbook and got that all caught up. Part of that involved having my thirteen year old read chapters 6 and 7 to me as I drove between Valdosta and Wildwood. She really was interested in how Wikipedia came to be and I'm sure that knowledge will be used against her teachers next year (politely, of course). We allow students to consult Wikipedia and we do all the time, yet we do not accept it as a valid resource in the learning community. The good thing is, we can link off of it to more valid resources. I should have had her read the rest of it to me! But, I did get it completed.

Spent some time checking in on Twitter to see if it appealed to me any more this week than it did last, but it did not.

I read the articles from the course library, and as a classroom teacher, I tend to automatically relate these to the k-12 arena. Being a teacher of computer applications, these were very useful articles, but the discussion threads tend to make me want to get up on my soapbox a bit. Being a former tech trainer for teachers, it makes me want to get up on my soapbox a LOT. I am very frustrated by those who refuse to see the usefulness of technology in education. This is not limited by the teachers age or generation, but by philosophy. It is kind of one of those things where you can lead a horse to water....

I played around with second life a little bit more, but have soooo much to learn there. Any experts here?

I have settled on the concept of using Google Wave for my project, based around creating a wave on ideas for using it in training and education. I think there is something I must be missing with it. It seems so novel when there are three or four users, but we had a group of twenty trying to create a Master Digital Educator project on it a few months ago and it seemed hard to follow. I'd like to get other thoughts and suggestions on it. I can only invite a few, so I am going to have to ask those invited to invite three more from the class. This should be interesting...