Inspiration comes at the darndest times....

Ok, so we were driving down the highway about 2:30 in the afternoon on a wonderful, cool, blue Saturday. My husband and I were conversing about…bills, the economy, plans for the future, you know, keeping it light.
And then BOOM it hits me–what if I try to use a voki with a voicethread? Can it be done? Can the same sound recording that I use for the one voki be used for the voice thread??

Hey, Feedjit, I have another red dot!

You know the most fun on a Wednesday evening is to see a new dot on your widjit map. I wonder who the other red dot is? They were in Florida at the time they dropped by. What did they think? Was it a mistaken click that someone ended up on my blog?

Hmmm, fun thoughts to ponder. I wonder if I'll ever get a bunch of dots like Miguel Guilin (sorry if I spelled your name incorrectly, Miguel.)

Well, it's time to be off.
Karen

Challenges to be New and Fresh

There is one consistent fact of education: the students are going to be there, and they need to be educated. Now today was a good day. I seemed to have all the answers. Last Thursday, I had very few answers--even to the most elementary of questions. Here is a great quote that sums it all up: (It is from Darren Draper on Friday, June 15, 2007).

• No matter how good it went today, the kids will always be back tomorrow.
• No matter how bad it went today, the kids will always be back tomorrow.

I'm so glad it doesn't depend on me. On days like last Thursday, I found some very wise teacher friends and soaked in some of their wisdom. I didn't whine or complain about how I felt so unprepared, but sat back in a meeting and listened to what they had to say. There were lesson plan ideas full of preparation. There were mountains of patience to be seen. I felt much better knowing that maybe I could "grow up" to be like them some day.

Voki training--er how do I use this?

It's time to get started on creating my Voki presentation for TCEA. I'm looking forward to it because I want to make it applicable to teachers who have 100 students. Some questions that come to mind are:

1. It's fun, we get that, but how can users/students benefit?
2. You can give a student a cool tool, but how do you make them want to use it for learning?
3. Will voki work on several different platforms?

More to come later.