Thing 23 - My journey through Web Tools 2.0 - Thank You RESA!

Warm wishes for a happy holiday season to all!


This was a wonderful, albeit time-consuming, experience and I am so glad I took the course. There are so many ways I can use what I have learned, and I hope I can pass this on to my teaching staff so that they can become more creative in their teaching. I know that I cannot access many of these sites from school, and this presents a problem. However, if teachers set up their own accounts from home they can direct their students to their own sites. This, of course, is not fair to those students who cannot afford a PC at home. (I even have students at my middle school whose mother teaches in the district and they have no Internet access at home!)

How can we present all these wonderful applications to use in education, when we cannot access them in our buildings? This is a great dilemma we face with accountability issues. To make education exciting and interesting we need to convince others that Web Tools are essential to educating today's youth and should be integrated into the curriculum.