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Hey everyone. Whether your fairly new to technology and want to delve in deeper, or whether you should be teaching this class instead of me, we can all learn best by following the example of the experts: our students. Whether we want to admit it or not, most M.I.S.D. students would blow us away with their ability to multi-task and communicate using Web2 technologies such as Zenga,MySpace, Del.i.cious, Photobucket,Neopets,Webkins, Zwinki, Secondlife, and many other sites that offer the latest and greatest in connecting and learning from one another. How do these experts learn? No, they don't pull out the old instruction manual...they play. They play and they make mistakes. They learn what doesn't work and what does. By the time most of us "old-timers," (okay, I'll speak for myself) get done trudging through the first page of Section 3.1 A-III-i-4 subset 2 of....a manual or instructional pdf. (might as well be reading the french version) our students have already figured out the basics of what they need to do to be able to jump right in and get started. I encourage you to go into this with the same sense of adventure. So, relax. Take a deep breath and know that you WILL get your chance to try out all of the wonderful technologies available to educators today. This is a very exciting time to be an educator. Don't feel like you have to master everything at once. Try one of the technologies you learn from this course and allow the trial-and-error method to work for you, just as it does for the 21st century texting youth of today. LOL :) Here is a sandboxor you to play around in. Nothing will be saved, so you can't mess anything up.

There is also a video tutorial that you can watch called [|Getting Started With Your Wikispace.]