Teacher Tom!

I just made my first post on another blog..Teacher Tom! He is a preschool teacher and artist living in Seattle. He has amazing ideas, really fun and different. I am definitely going to use some of his messy ideas if the custodian doesn't kill me first...paint with their feet? Pour paint down over wooden posts onto canvas? Corrugated cardboard constructions with glue guns? I want to bring fun back to schools!

As for the technology challenges so far....great in some ways because it is making me try new things I probably would never have done like Pandora, video searches, other teachers' blogs. And since I am not paid to go to curriculum days, I miss the speakers and larger instruction days, I really appreciate that we "specialists" could be a part of this by doing it on our own time. But I probably should have used this DLC time to get a more solid foundation under me. I think the vast majority of teachers need more help with hands-on time like iphoto, imovie, Skype, Powerpoint, etc.