I got an email response from Alice Barr, an educator at University of Southern Maine who taught a class this summer on Web 2.0 tools. I had happened upon a wiki she set up for her class and found it most interesting. I have no idea how I got there because I was not using Google Notebook to track my cyberjourneys at the time. Anyway, she was very pleased I'd contacted her, and she sent me to this site for more professional development opportunities.

http://k12onlineconference.org/

From this link, I found out about the Fireside Chat with David Warlick, which was part of an Elluminate Live online conference. I also downloaded a movie made by Clarence Fisher, a Canadian educator, who is trying to educate us about the changing face of the classroom and where it needs to go if we are to prepare our kids to function in a global economy.

Talk about establishing connections. This is what it is all about. The only drawback is finding the time. I'm up way too late again this evening.

I also need to figure out how some of what I'm learning can be incorporated into our school procedures.