So I'm reading blogs about integrating technology into the classroom and I'm learning stuff already. I enjoyed this post about using Google Earth to bring lessons closer to home:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/11/an-easy-way-to-find-google-earth-tours.html#.WB4javl97IU
I actually experimented with the how-to by Google Earthing my parents' retirement village, in all its riveting glory and excitement. Look at that! Google Earth can put you where your heart is.

Next I read this post:
http://adeleefl.blogspot.co.il/2016/10/its-fun-to-be-winners-especially-when.html
about Israeli kids participating in a Google contest to improve Google Translate. THANK G-D.....
although some of my best blogging material has been samples of hilariously translated school emails via Google Translate. Alas, I'll have to look elsewhere for an easy laugh.

Finally, I listened to this Southern Accented podcast cautiously encouraging tech-unsavvy teachers to first learn how to use Twitter and then, if ever, start using Twitter.
http://www.bamradionetwork.com/every-classroom-matters/4099-140-twitter-tips-for-educuators
I have Twitter. Outside of war-time, I never use it. However, in the spirit of showing these podcasters I am one of the capable ones, I went ahead and started following @TEFL and @classroomblog. Just for fun.

(For anyone who is wondering, it's Saturday night here in Israel, though Blogger is using US time to indicate when my post went up).

My name is Lisa and I'm just now starting my On-Line (Teaching in the 21st Century) course which, presumably, started a week ago. My friend Lucy asked me if I'm an on-time person or a last-minute person and I told her I really don't know. In truth, as my participation in this course will undoubtedly reveal, I tend to be a fly by the seat of my pants person. And so here I am, blogging for homework. Thank Gd I know how to blog. As disappointing as it is to imagine a generation of kids who have grown up on screens and who now require an interactive stimulating screen based type of education, I am certain it will be helpful to learn to integrate such teaching methods into the classroom. At a minimum it could mean the end of sloppy handwritten and dog-eaten homework. Until next time....
(For anyone who is wondering, it's Saturday night here in Israel, though Blogger is using US time to indicate when my post went up).