My family and I are hosting Tiny Ted's visit to Alabama. Tiny Ted is a geocacheing teddy bear whoese home is in Wales with Paul Harrington's class at Cefn Forest Primary School. Tiny Ted has also traveled to New Zealand to spend time with Allanah King's Year 3 and Year 4 class. He journeyed to America with Sheryl Nussbaum Beach where he spent time in Virginia. During this summer, Tiny Ted spent the night at the Birmingham Zoo for Harry Potter Zoo Snooze with Noah. They got to get close up with an alligator, snowy owl, and other animals. They made troll boogers in Potion's class. The best part of the night was a nighttime tour of the zoo that ended with a midnight train ride. At 1:00 AM, Noah and Tiny Ted received the new Harry Potter book. The both fell asleep to me reading the first chapter under the stars with the tiger bellowing for food.
We have begun to think how Skype could be used in our classrooms. A middle school teachers asked for help in finding a classroom in France that they could Skype. I quickly realized that there was not a good way to find interested classrooms. However, while researching resources for Eduwikipedia , I came across a Skype directory. When I selected the Education category there was only one person who seemed to be truly involved in education. I requested his information because he said he was interested in locating other educators in technology to collaborate with. Last Friday night my Skype phone began to ring. Bill Brennan from New York was on the other line. We began to share how technology is being used in both New York and Alabama. I cannot wait to see where this conversation and collaboration will take us.
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