HA! I wrote a post to let everyone know ( brag about my genius)  that I created a wiki and invited my students to it so they could "blog." It worked. I got this technology business. Steve Jobs would high five me and even offer a fist bump. It totally worked! and then....the post which was amazing, funny but significant, and real n.e.v.e.r. showed up. I wrote it in November and yeah, I realized it TODAY.  I am choosing to blame Murphy's Law. It's not the first time, mind you. It's the fourth t...
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Oh yeah...I am aware of what an innocent search on the web can produce. I hold my breath and keep one eye closed whenever I click on the magnifying glass. So, I'm trying to set up blogging (kind of) and everything was going according to plan. Student had nicknames, laptops and I created a way they could make comments on our class webpage without having the password to the page. Yippie! I tried it out at home. It worked!!!! Do you here the breaks screeching? Yeah, totally blocked at school. No...
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 So. We get our classmates computers. Whoohoo! Um hold up...I have get them all up and running   by    my    self ! Okay so I didn't technically have to set them up myself but if I wanted to use them as soon I got them in my hot little hands (of course!) then I had to do it alone...or did I?  Call me crazy but I figured, I had thirteen eagar boys and girls who could set the computers up if I showed them how. That's right, my fresh off the first grade hall second graders set up those computers...
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    I have found during the last few months that although I am not a technology native, I can do pretty well with a manual in my lap. I can remember using a rotary phone and even telling the operator the number I needed to be connected to when I lived near Woodland, Georgia when I was a child. I am in my late thirties. I remember our first microwave. I remember having to get up and turn the channel on the console T.V. when the news came on at six for my father.  Technology has transformed eve...
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