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So after beg­ging and plead­ing with my PLN on Twit­ter and sub­mit­ting no less than five beta requests to Google (includ­ing one telling them that I would name my next child Google I was finally granted an invi­ta­tion to the exclu­sive test. My first reac­tion to using the Wave was that the UI was not like any­thing I had seen, but after using it for a few days I quickly got over that. My next reac­tion was “what’s the big deal”, which was a sen­ti­ment shared by many mem­bers of the PLN. At first Google Wave just seemed like a chat client that might be a lit­tle novel because you could More >

This year I begin my twelfth year as a pro­fes­sional edu­ca­tor. I like to think of myself as ener­getic and enthu­si­as­tic about my pro­fes­sion and I still believe that it is noble, but I would be lying if I didn’t admit to feel­ing a lit­tle burned out lately. In addi­tion to my teach­ing role I have been the act­ing (if not offi­cial) tech­nol­ogy coör­di­na­tor for the school, dili­gently attend­ing work­shops and con­fer­ences, teach­ing teach­ers, and wav­ing pom-poms for inte­gra­tion. But lately I have felt that no one else is cheering.

As is my wont, I adopted Twit­ter early on, after hear­ing a buzz about it in nerdy cir­cles. I had a very hard time dis­cov­er­ing More >