Obe Hostetter, a fellow ITRT and classmate at VT, has created a fantastic resource for the SmartBoard. Please view and take advantage! Also note his invitation to e-mail him additional resources to share with others. Collaboration is the key to good teaching! 
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Happy New Year! This is the time of year we always reflect on our professional/personal life and swear we are going to change our wayward ways. We might even ponder about “Why are we here?” “What can I do to make things better?” or less philosophically, “Why does chocolate have so many calories”?
Unfortunately, I don’t have the answer to any of the above…I’m still trying to remember what I’m supposed to do next. I do hope, however, that we will all take stock of what we want to do to help our students and resolve to remember our audience. With this in mind, we need to reflect on how we use the technology tools that students view as second nature, but we, as teachers, sometimes don’t want to take the time to learn.
Web 2.0 is a way of life outside the classroom, so it’s a good idea for us to start exploring the many aspects of this technology and to figure out how to tap into the kids with it.
In that pursuit, my New Year’s resolution is to be more diligent in finding ways to help the classroom teachers learn more about Web 2.0 and other technologies that they can implement into their classroom. So, please check back here often to see frequent posts, links, and information to help you with your students.
The wiki, a website that allows multiple users to create, modify and organize web page content in a collaborative manner, is a terrific tool to use for organizing lessons/projects and to use for collaboration with students and/or colleagues. Check out my “ITRT Wiki” and feel free to join and contribute! This wiki is a work in progress, so please check in often to see what’s new.
A wiki is only as good as its contributions, so please help make this one outstanding! 
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