I MICCA-ED…DID U? 4-24-09

This week, our STEP II Team had a wonderful professional development opportunity. We were able to attend two days of the MICCA conference in Baltimore. Overall, I learned a great deal. Just when you think you are up-to-date with the latest in technology, you turn around and are left in its tracks once again. Two sessions that I most enjoyed were presented by Selena Ward, technology integration teacher, at Benjamin Tasker Middle School. She is an official Google Certified Teacher who gave two information-packed sessions on WEB 2.0 and Google Tools. One general understanding I gained the most clarification on was the difference between WEB 1.0 and WEB 2.0. It was fairly simple after all. The main difference was in the amount of interaction a person has with the Internet and how this has evolved. The wealth of valuable info. she shared is vast. I still need much time to further explore it in its entirety. I am hoping to do so a little at a time, and probably in great depth over the summer. I think Mary Beth’s suggestion to get together as a team to share and collaborate is terrific. Our only obstacle is finding a common time.