Patty’s Web 2.0 Blog

I found many (too many!) items of interest on Classroom 2.0.  While exploring Forums, I came across a discussion on using GoogleEarth for math (Real World Math), which was pretty interesting to me as a math teacher. There were groups for beginning Classroom 2.0 users as well as for any other topic you might imagine.  I visited one for Elementary Reading Teachers, Stories that Stick (A sense of humor is no joke), and Library 2.0, which was a joke  at this point.  Apparently it is new or there are very few users. While trolling around in Groups, I began to try the tags, which were conveniently sorted by Tools, Subject, and Area, and which I found quite helpful. I found a discussion on Internet Safety lessons, which I hope will add to my discussions on this topic.  A search for summer reading brought me to an application (correct term?) called Shelfari, which I would not use at school but might be something I would use in my personal life for my bookclub.  There is the capacity to post the link in social networking sites, such as Facebook.

I view myself partially as an information broker at school, and the Ning networks related to education will be useful in terms of connecting teachers to information they need as well as for giving me the seeds of new ideas to implement at The Schenck School.  In the course of exploring Classroom 2.0 and other networks, I have forwarded 4-5 sites already.  Now if I can just be more efficient in my information processing. . .