One of my big themes this year for technology use was making connections. Technology allows us to easily connect with other people and experts around the world. We’ve started by doing a Mystery Skype with a classroom in New Jersey (another coming soon) and also Skyping with a partner school in India, The Nirvana School. Those were two really exciting things, but I had been feeling a little bad with my lack of writing on the blog, and disappointed as this would limit some of the global connections we could make. And then … all of a sudden … in the span of just a few days I was contacted by some very interesting people, which might lead to some special connections.
The first connection came to my Twitter feed and shortly thereafter, my email.
I was contacted by an employee from Skype who said that she had seen read my blog post about our Mystery Skype. We conversed over email a little, and what is exciting is that there is going to be a visitor from Microsoft (who owns Skype) who will be coming to watch us do a Mystery Skype. He is the “Global Senior Director of Brand Experience of Consumer Apps and Services at Microsoft.” Sounds important!
Hearing that someone out there was reading my blog inspired me to get some new news up right away. I wrote a simple little post about using Book Creator in Social Studies. And do you kn0w what happened just a bit later? I got an email from Dan from Book Creator asking if they can use my blog post on the Book Creator blog? Amazing! So, my blog post should be coming soon here: http://www.redjumper.net/blog/category/education/
It’s amazing how these connections can pop up when you least expect it. Here’s to the power of technology! I’ll be interested to see if these connections lead anywhere!