Oy. I've gotten a bit behind. I just checked my RSS whatever it is and there are 668 something or others waiting for me, so that's officially a nightmare. I've also tried to tackle Week 5's play week. I scanned the list of Web 2.0 awards. I've heard of many of them including delicious, pbwiki, pandora and technocrati. I've used some, too, such as craigslist, monster, yelp and zillow. I checked out delicious, backpack and mango and see a bit of potential but mostly just got swamped again. I also came across parkingspaces and forwarded it to a friend who is trying to rent a parking space, so something good came of that. Now I will commit to going back to the award page and reading the descriptions of everything in case I need one of those products down the line. In the remaining few minutes that I have today, I am going to dive into week 6.
Wait, one more comment. What I was most struck by in looking over the awards list was that only the top three applications made the list and even out of those three, I bet most people only ever use the first one or two tools. This got me thinking about how much power teachers have in what they choose to teach in the limited time they have with their students. Last night I prepared my lesson plan for my English class and then today half of it went out the window to accommodate the pace of the students who made it to class this morning. Ever since then, I've been trying to decide it I kept in and cut out the right materials. It also got me thinking that when it comes to technology, or anything new, it's very important that people have positive initial experiences. Otherwise, they might be misled into thinking that learning more is not worthwhile. O.k., back to week 6.
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