Wednesday, November 19, 2008

First VSTE Meeting

November 17th we had our first VSTE meeting. There were fourteen avatars in attendance. These notes are from Cyrus. Thanks, Matt! Thunder Insippo Cyrus Hush Alfredo Bedrosian Emersyn Sweetwater Argus Muircastle WitchyRichy Witherspoon jazmemo Zimminy Willoughby Lorefield Mandie Mimulus Baroness Babenco ITRT Jetcity After introductions all around, we chatted in text and voice about our uses of blogs, bookmarking tools like Diigo and Delicious, picture platforms like Flickr and Picasa and content management systems like Porta-portal, Moodle and Nings. After that we agreed to try to meet every Monday night at 5pm SLT to share best practices. Thunder showed off her teachers apple URL to her Google Docs Sl teacher database. http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/soltechintegration.htm was mentioned as the place to go for lessons! Several ning and delicious sites were mentioned.