Part of my job as technology specialist is to keep up on the changing landscape of education. To do this, I subscribe to dozens of education and technology blogs. I used Bloglines.com, a free service that aggregates into one convenient place, all of the new posts from the blogs to which I subscribe. It’s nice because I don’t hunt for new blog posts; the blog posts come to me, much like email messages. I also subscribe to several podcasts through iTunes.  In addition to blogs, podcasts are another free resource. I find it’s much harder to make the time to listen to podcasts, but I have learned so much through the ones I have managed to listen to. With blogs and podcasts, I engage in a little bit of professional development each day. Although I can interact and learn from educators online, I also attend education conferences. There are even conferences devoted entirely to handheld computing! I continuously provides an updated list of excellent conferences on my website.  Click here for a list of upcoming conferences: http://learninginhand.com/articles/presentations.html.

I am thrilled by the amazing things students have done at Willowdale and the powerful possibilities, that I can’t help but share all I can! And, quite unexpectedly, I actually learn a whole lot from sharing. I have gleaned information from incredible comments on my blog and from email communication from those who visit my websites.

I learn the most when I read about what other teachers and students are doing with technology. I find that online discussion forums are great places to learn about handhelds. Also, Palm puts together a quarterly publication called Education in Hand. I link to these resources and many others on my website at: http://learninginhand.com/links/index.html.

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