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Sharon Sumner  You will soon start feeling this class has taken on a life of its own. In that sense, it is can be a little overwhelming. That is why it is so important to have a tool like delicious to organize all the great sites you are discovering and sharing so that even though you can't get to them all now, you'll have them to come back to later. Or maybe start a blog to organize your thoughts. For my part, I get caught up in the enthusiasm of all the available tools and can't wait to share more. I saw a technology professional development idea awhile back that I thought would go over great. The idea is called "Speed Geeking". Based on the concept of speed dating, you have several technology ideas to share and people to share them, say Web 2.0 tools. You have someone to share that idea, a laptop, and a participant. The person sharing has 5 minutes to "sell" their idea. Then a timer goes off and the particpants rotate. At the end of the training, the participants have been exposed to a vast amount of technology. They can then decide which of the tools they were exposed to could be utilized by them and can make the decision to learn more. As a group, they would have enough knowledge to decide which of the tools they would like more training on and workshops could be set up based on their wants and needs. In this class, we are going into more depth on a few of these things, but the rest.......file away those ideas you want to learn more about and bring them out when the time is right. At least now you know they are there. The major things we are learning about in this class are....Blackboard, Moodle, WebQuests, delicious, wikis, discussion boards, online portfolios, educational technology standards (NETS), evaluating websites, and some excellent Web 2.0 tools. The rest is just icing on the cake. After you make your decision to do either a Moodle virtual classroom or a WebQuest in Week 4, there will be no more new projects introduced. You will continue working on the ones already started for the rest of the class.......but with some "Speed Geeking" added along the way. Continue to have fun with all that is out there!