Well, you gotta start somewhere!

Hello and welcome to my first attempt at blogging for adults. My name is Jim and I teach 5th grade in the Great State of Michigan. I have been blogging with my class for a year now and I love it. I will share more about that with you a little bit later.

It took me two weeks to find the right title for this blog. Picking a title was not as easy as I thought it was going to be. I must of tried out 27 of them before I settled on this one. I was reading a post by my friend Jim Wenzloff. In his post titled Change he talks about how we need to change how we are dealing with technology in our classrooms right now:

"We need to change and change fast. We need to look at our way of doing things and find new ways of meeting the needs or our students. We need to take advantage of “New Tools for a New Age.” I think there are three things educators can do to begin the change..."

It's a great article and you should really read it all. I am ready to make that change and this blog is my first step So that's how I came up with the name. I want to share with you how to use some of those "new tools" and I want you to share with me how you do it.

I would also like to share with you neat stuff I find on the web. Everyday I discover new sites, videos, and blogs that can help us and the kids do things quicker, deeper, and more efficiently.

That's enough for now.

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