Summer Technology Institute

Here we are in Belfast, Maine on a beautiful summer day. Looking forward to resuming my attempt to learn ways of using technology to enhance my class offerings. As you can see, my March attempt didn't get too far. Hopefully, with a full week to concentrate on this I will be able to better use blogs.

Latino's AP US History Blog: April 2008

Latino's AP US History Blog: April 2008

Back in the Blogging Business

This blog is created in conjunction with an online course (Learning and Teaching with Web 2.o Tools). Our teacher is Phil Brookhouse who is courageously leading us to try 2.o tools to enhance our teaching offerings. I have dabbled with blogs before but had a difficult time staying up with all the traffic that came my way. As a result I am always looking for suggestions as to how best to manage a classroom site.

Seeing the merit in the blogs is not an issue as I readily learned the value they provided for my "quieter" students. Looking forward to trying this again.

As far as the title is concerned, it came about thanks to the assistance of one of my seven cat friends. As I was lying in bed trying to think of something creative up jumped our "oldest" and proceded to purr up a storm. Bingo - the title popped into my head as my feline friends have a way of relieving stress and opening up thought channels. I know - corny but it works for me!