Week 1-Welcome to the Learn and Earn 2 Blog for Elementary Teachers

I assume that since you are here for Learn and Earn 2, you are familiar with the routine. I'll post new content for you each week on Thursdays. At the end of each post there will be a prompt for you to respond to. You'll have until the following Thursday morning to respond to the prompt by posting a comment at the end of that week's entry. NO LATE WORK. (However, I do know that sometimes life gets in the way of even the most interesting of blog posts, so during the week of Thanksgiving and again during the winter break, I'll post an optional prompt. These two posts will not be required required for clock hours UNLESS you have "make up" work to do because you missed responding to a post (or two).)

Another thing that's new this year is the total clock hours you can earn--I shortened the class length to 10 weeks/posts (actually 12 if you count the two optional posts mentioned above) and increased the total number of clock hours of the class. Now the class is worth 5 clock hours. This change honors the fact that many of you will choose to spend more than 15 minutes a week with each "assignment," especially when you consider the time you may (hopefully) spend experimenting with and implementing some of the ideas you learn about.

Well, let's get started shall we? To begin, I'd like us to introduce ourselves. In your comment below, please include

• your first and last name (or just first initial of last name if you want to be less "google-able"),
• where and what you teach,
• what you find most promising, challenging, or exciting about technology today
• and, finally, anything you'd want me, your instructor, to consider in planning future posts (e.g. are there topics or tools you'd like to see featured?)

If you'd like a a little primer about posting comments, you can watch this video:

Posting a Comment to the Learn and Earn Blog from 10Tech on Vimeo.