In the past two Wednesdays, Cathy Mere at Reflect and Refine hosted the first week of the #cyberPD title: Alan November’s Who Owns the Learning?: Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age, and Jill Fisch hosted the second discussion of chapters three and four on her blog, My Primary Passion. This discussion of chapters five and six is hosted by Laura Komos at Ruminate and Invigorate. Stop by her blog to link your posts or visit to see what all the excitement is about! Thanks Laura!
I'm so excited, and much of my excitement comes from finally taking the time to sitdown to see what creating a search engine is all about, which comes from Chapter 4, page 58. I started one that may be helpful to teachers who write with their students, and who may want to search for specific lessons from sites I recommend. I find it challenging to have thousands of sites come up when I'm searching for different kinds of writing lesson ideas, and often search the same sites, so those are what I chose to include in my search engine. If you want to check it out, it's at the bottom of my blog site. At the same time, I came across a blogger tip site here, that gave instructions in setting up a search engine for my own blog, and you can find that search to the right. That enabled me to get rid of the cumbersome, taking-up-too-much-space cloud of tags in my layout.