Thing 2

My first thoughts of Web 2.0 are that I feel sort of like what I am sure my 65 year old mother feels like when she tries to wrestle with the concept of text messages, voice mail and answering machine messages. She is still clueless as to the difference and what the purpose of each is but yet prattles on as if she does.
I feel that I know just enought to start talking but am unsure of the HOW of using each of these tools.
I know that I am excited about learning how to dive into the web 2.0 ocean with my 1st grade learners and recreate a learning enviroment that spawns "learning to be" instead of "learning about", participation instead of presentation and conversation instead of publication. I am no longer a lone first grade teacher presenting the world but a first grade teacher learning about the world along with my students via the web. My job is to make their education public to the world and the leverage of the world public to them with adult discernment. My classroom will become the hallways and in my mind the hallways are much more fun!
As I said before... my mother prattles as if she knows what she is speaking about and I think I know where I am going but am overwhelmed with diving in. Perhaps it is prattling but I am in the ocean now and refuse to let the little fishies drown.