Helpful Resources

Using this blog as a Personal Learning Environment is a great way for future teachers and current teachers to share their ideas with each other.  I feel that if we can be in contact with professionals who have experience and things to share with those becoming teachers, we can be greatly benefited.  Also, there are times where being in school right now we can learn things that are new to current teachers and we can share those ideas on a blog.  As fellow students, we can use our blogs to share extra information we may find more easily with each other.
The other resource we discussed in class that struck me as being extremely useful was Google docs and presentations.  While we are still in school this is helpful because there are going to be many instances where we will be doing group projects, making lesson plans together, and putting together presentations in groups, where we will need to share information with each other.  The nice thing about Google docs and presentations is that we don't have to be with our group in order to work in the projects.  I think this is so helpful because we all have such busy schedules and it is difficult to find a time to meet up and work on a project.  As a teacher this resource would be helpful because it provides a way for teachers working at different schools to share documents with each more easily.  If one teacher has a worksheet or information that has significantly worked well for them, they can easily send the actual document to a number of other teachers in different locations.  Although this is possible using a fax machine or e-mail, Google docs is easier because it doesn't need to be printed or attached, it can simply be sent to whomever would like access to the document.