The two things that I selected are
igoogle and google wave.
I set up an igoogle page that has the following gadgets
Google Reader
Gmail
Google Book Search
Google Driving Directions
Weather
Calculator
Calendar
To do list
This allows me to check m email, blog posts, to do list and calendar all fromt he same page and also do the most common tasks from my home page. I have had igoogle for years but all it had was the weather and famous quotes. I explored what was out there and suddenly igoogle became very useful
Google Wave is relatively new. I invited Nancy and Dave to it and would be happy to invite anyone else out there that would like to join. It is a realtime collaboration between people who are in different places. People work on the same document, they can talk, edit, and communicate in real time to produce a finished product. I thought that this would be ideal in communicating with our curriculum director and Rockwall HS. We could easily meet during the day on the computer to put together the district benchmarks. We could change the language, edit questions, import questions from our laptops and have a finished product to copy all without ever meeting, emailing, etc. I encourage everyone to join google wave so that we can "brainstorm" a way to incorporate some of these new ideas into our classroom.
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Great idea! I think it could work in other areas as well. Teachers and librarians could talk about work they want to do in the library. Although I love seeing everyone in the library I think this might make it easier for some teachers to tell me what they want and set up a time in the library.
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