The new year has totally swept me up and I am finally getting back to business. I needed to go back and begin at the beginning. As I experienced all the information in Thing 1, I read about the incorporation of Web 2.0 tools in everything we do and feel that our skills and abilities in technology continually challenge us to spend time learning. And our students are much more prepared and technology literate that we are. Creating realtime and valuable information literacy learning experiences for our students requires continual change in the way we do things. I feel like, as a Media Specialist, I am always treading on new territory - teaching new things. AND this requires vast amounts of time. Teachers I work with must feel it too, and coupled with the intensity of curriculum delivery in the High School is a very real challenge. I believe ALL teachers want to use the new technologies, but are held back by the time constraints of learning them. At least, our involvement with MILI will give us the opportunities to explore things we haven't even investigated.
I have also changed my ideas about Wikipedia? Can I trust the article entitled "Truth, Can You Handle It" which stacks Wikipedia up against our known and trusted source, Britannica and discover that it holds it's ground. 3:4 isn't all that bad?
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