Response to Video - My PLE

This is an outstanding production, obviously a student who is on top of her game. The approach is one that I would work with, a bit challenging but doable. She is organized- her page reminds me of a filing cabinet, items neatly labelled and filed so they are easily accessible; not only that but her personal sites are separate and apart from her educational sites. COOL.
I especially admire and appreciate her high level of responsibility, one of her comments resonates for me; she said and I quote ' It's not a choice not to do it but when to do it'. Highly responsible. She went on further to state that technology allows for more to be done and rules out paper and pencil. My take on that excellent especially because we are struggling to save our environment, so every tree that is saved is less paper.
 Presently I use www.wordle.net to assist my kids with producing poems in my Math and Science class, however I'm now about to get permission from the tech gurus in my district to allow me to use www.glogster.com to help my kids produce a digital poster on the planets or on astronomy, which will widen the presentation. The digital poster is an idea I'd like to use with my Science classes this year because after my research I realize it's a safe site and my kids will think it's cool.
I would love to teach this child, challenging? Yes but it would force me to use technology more, in order to effectively teach her. I really loved the peer review section of her presentation. Although I have used peer review over the years I've always used the peers on hand; never thought of using email or skype as a part of my resources. This is a very effective way to get all of us to think the technological way. WOW

Response to PLE

In one word 'WOW!'. This is a great presentation. I admire how organized she is in her learning and how very informed. She uses technology much better than many adults do. I heard about 'glogster' for the very first time and it is very interesting. I think I'm going to research to see if I can use this with my kids. The organization of her site reminds me of keeping a file cabinet in order, it was great to see this being done electronically.
At one point I felt a bit intimidated by how comfortable she was just going through the motions. I never thought that learning through cyberspace could teach responsibility but I stand corrected. Students like her would force teachers like myself to move with the technological era or we will certainly be led by our students. I would appreciate having such a student as she would challenge me learm more in order to teach her. This was certainly an eye-opening experience.