News @215

After three full days of inputting all this new information, technology, and “skills” – into my head-  I am honestly near tears; I have forgotten what I learned two days ago! Although I am very excited by so much technology and I know my students live in this world,  I am very frustrated by too much information. Among the silly things that frustrate me: I keep loosing tabs, I begin to post and then go back to another blog to link and loose what I have written, I am on overload and can’t remember how to do one simple thing that we have been doing all week; it frustrates me that all this is so organic to my own children, but not me. I am an immigrant who is still on the ship looking at the new world. I do not use my computer for entertainment, or general information. I use it for school, and to keep in contact with my family. So after looking over two, “must see” blogs: mscofino.edublogs.org/ and weblogg-ed.com/, although interesting to a point, it seemed like reading any other website, but with personal information added.  Then I  looked at a blog from classblogmeister.com/  via sprankleblog.edublogs.org/ . This blog reaffirmed my belief that a class blog could work, and it does not have to have a lot of conversation connected to it. I have agian have faith  that I can begin! All that said, when I compare blogs with the wiki from, Pennsylvania, jabernethy.wikispaces.com/ I really believe that, keeping in mind my grade level,  wikis are the better starting place for me and for my class, which has done nothing beyond computer lab once a week.