Personal Development....YES please

I had never heard of MACUL before class last Tuesday and when I started to play around with the website I once again was happy that I took this class. All these new technologies and how much technology is being integrated into the classroom is amazing! I know that I should be looking for these kind of conferences myself, but with school and work and being a senior, I feel so busy, I know that this is an excuse. But, lucky for me I am taking this technology course and am getting all of these resources thrown at me. So thank you!

The first site in which I came across was http://www.techsavvyed.net/ which is a teachers blog all dealing with technology. This blog seemed so cool, the teachers who are involved are so into technology and brining it to their students, letting them mess around with it. I just think that it is so cool. And these teachers are getting involved and staying up to date, they write about their excitement for the upcoming MACUL conference.

The second page I looked at was http://www.macul.org/site/files/js06digitalst.pdf
This was located in the 2006 conference files and I thoroughly enjoyed reading how this teacher used digital storytelling in their classroom. This idea is very interesting to me and I am glad that i came across ways to use it in my classroom next year.

The third page that I looked at
http://classroomhelp.com/macul/index.html and from here i connected to the handouts...
http://classroomhelp.com/macul/handouts.html
Then I had to download the participating schools handouts. It was so interesting to read through the steps that these classrooms went through and I plan on using their directions to have students in my classroom do the same.