Talk is REALLY cheap

It seems to take a lot of discipline to make sure to put in daily entries in your blog, discipline that I am apparently lacking. So, it is a week later and here i go.
my original plan was to record some of the interesting information that I discovered at the ISAC'S convention in Indianapolis. It would involve moving my notes from my little green paper notebook to my blog for purposes of reflection and sharing. Anyhow, I lost the notebook and found it after a frenzied search that lasted over a couple of days.
the first speaker that I heard was Patrick Basset, president of NAIS. Interestingly, he referenced a video that I had already showed my middle school faculty at our first meeting,
" Did You Know" by Karl Fisch. He also recommended another video I had already seen on You Tube, " A Vision of Students Today." I hope to share this with the faculty at a later date. Mr. Basset was the first of many presenters at the convention to talk with great enthusiasm about a book by Daniel Pink titles A Whole New State of Mind as a natural follow-up to Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat which is apparently the road map and Bible of sorts for talking about skills for the 21st century.\Enough for now.

Talk is cheap

okay, so about a week later I write down my post. Hopefully, there will be quite a few so I can report some of my discoveries about education and the web and have a place to go REMEMBER what I had been thinking about.
My first thought is about the possibilities of a scrabble club for school. There is actually a national school organization for these clubs and the skill helps to develop a better vocabulary. while attempting a vocabulary site, I came upon Free Rice, a vocabulary game sponsored by the UN that gives 10 grains of rice for every correct answer that you find. with each correct answer, the difficulty level goes up. Interesting concept and I am hoping to share this with the students and faculty as well.
I have many thoughts about the ISACS conference that i just attended in Indianapolis. My wheels are turning and I am still trying to digest a lot of what I heard, and trying to figure out what I understand. next step, where to go with it.

Getting down to it

No more procrastinating!!The pros seem to feel that the best way to get yourself going with Web 2.0 is to develop the habit of blogging everyday. Doesn't matter if I am the only one who reads it. it is just about devleoping the habit and the practice .
SOOOOO much out there, it is difficult to comprehend how much has happend so fast with the use of the Internet. iIam try to read The World is Flat 3.0 and it paints a picture of a world vastly different from the isolated one I grew up in. As a teacher, the key words will be collaboration and authoring. As a global citizen, it is all about interdependence and ghlobal connectivity. Everyday, I am amazed at the possibilities.