Back in Baltimore!

So I landed back in Baltimore this morning and was home by lunch.  I managed to get to the grocery store as the cupboard was very bare!  Then I sat down and as I started to think about what I had learned, I just fell asleep!  Well they say travel is exhausting.....

At any rate, one of the things I found with Diigo is the social aspects.  Not only can you follow or be followed as Twitter, you can network and join groups.  As I discovered this morning, your groups will usually send you an email with posts and bookmarks by others in the groups.  Wow!  What a wealth of resources.

Now as I sat at Logan this morning looking through all of these, I thought it would be very easy to drown in all these cool tools.  I do tend to sometimes have a little ADD with these resources and get really sidetracked.  I'm going to try setting aside a time each day to go through them which includes emails and RSS feeds.  The trick is to try and implement some of these things.

It was great to meet Richard Byrne and Tom Daccord.  I have followed Richard's blog for a long time.  He always provides information on applications for education of the tools he blogs about.  Tom directs the EdTech Teacher program. 

EdTech Teacher Workshop

So what inspired me to start blogging again?  I'm taking an EdTech Teacher workshop at Harvard and while I'm familiar with a lot of the tools that have been shown, I've come away with some new information and also a renewed desire to share it.  So perhaps instead of merely emailing the cool stuff I find, I'll post to this blog.

Below is the library in Robinson Hall where the workshop is being held.  I find it quite ironic that the library itself is from a time gone by including the books which are certainly dated.  But the tables in the room are full of laptops and portable technology gadgets!

Back Again

So, I've tried blogging before and just stopped.  I've learned a lot since those early days and I now subscribe to a lot of great bloggers.  I find myself so awed by some of the things I find that I'm like a kid with a new toy.  I can't wait to share.  My faculty and colleagues are usually on the receiving end of  my emails with the subject "This is really cool!".   So I've decided to begin anew.