Awaiting What?!

Yesterday was an interesting day in terms of my connection with 21st Century learning!  At our faculty meeting, our BLT (Building Liaison for Technology) presented to our faculty on a new and exciting "toy" we have received! Although we have a few teachers who still consider the overhead projector their best-friend, we now have the option of using a document camera.  This is a small, 3-piece device that literally takes the place of the overhead. Teachers can now use this camera to project images or worksheets. With the accompany of the white-board, you can still manage to wipe-on and off just as you would in the past! We're pretty excited to try these out.  (Image from : www.vtcexpress.com/.../document-cameras.asp) It was fun to hear about the challenges some feel they will face with such adaptability.  I am actually looking forward to implementing this gadget and doing some collaboration with my students during math class. 

The second run-in I have had this week with my 21st Century learning is interpreting messages on blogs. I have learned so much exploring different Kindergarten blogs and deciding what I want to do in my own classroom. However, I decided to post to two blogs about different learning activities that are taking place in their classrooms- and well, I thought I would get a response.  No luck.  Instead, I have a message on both blogs stating "Awaiting Moderation".  When I read this the first time, I literally thought- Awaiting WHAT?!  I had to go back to my best friend, Google and check it out. I learned that it means the author of the blog has not approved my message for posting yet.  And then through some communication with my great colleague and group partner, Nancy- I learned that this may never happen! It could depend on how often the author checks their page. I looked for a link to notify the author like Nancy suggested, but have not found one for either blog. So, here I wait......
In the meantime, feel free to check out these Kindergarten blogs in which I left my messages at and you can get some great ideas for a primary classroom!
http://kinderblogger.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/poetry-ideas/#comment-557
* Great resources for teaching poetry within a language arts program.

http://mrskilburnkiddos.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/were-on-our-way-were-on-our-way-on-our-way-to-mrs-kilburns-farm/#comment-5988
* I found a wonderful farm unit that ties in with what we will be studying in May.

Within this class, I posted on Nancy and Nina's blogs- which can be located at:

http://a-digital-diva.blogspot.com/

http://capuanoland.blogspot.com/2011/04/lap-tops-in-classroom.html#comments