Yesterday, as I lived on my couch giving into my head cold that should be exiting today, I brought all my technology from my study to my living room and moved from one toy to the next by walking from one station on the couch to the other created by the window.  I worked on 3 pieces during the day in between naps and movies.  I finished an Ibook for my buddy Dana, a gift of photo memories for her daughter and new grandaughter.

I have been trying to get used to the new version of Imovie before I have to teach it in October for my inservice course coming up at Monroe Woodbury for middle and high school teachers.  I think it will be a great improvement from Imovie 06 once I get used to it, but at the moment, I am glad to have a session at the Apple store to support my learning and lessen the frustration.

I have been feeling my own guilt at leaving my ABC movie project with Kevin on the back burner.  Last night, just before I shut everything down for the night, I thought about how I could create title pages with Apple’s Keynote and then grab them and save them as jpgs.  I tried to use the Sketch software I recently got from my buddies at Comic Life, but I didn’t get how to create jpgs with it.  I’m sure I’m just missing something easy, but I opted for a process I’ve used before.  I sent the pages as photos first to Flickr and then I realized that wasn’t necessary, I could just upload them from the desktop to Jumpcut and they took the covers easily.  So now I want to play a bit more with the title page for each of the new movie combinations I create.  What fun when you make that eureka breakthrough.

I am still hooked on jigzone.com .  I’m not a computer gamer, but as a kid I was totally hooked on books and jigsaw puzzles.  I love play with jigzone competing with the clock established by the site.  I usually beat the average.  The fastest completion is absurd.

So what will today hold on my learning curve?  Here goes…

 I just read a new post from my tech buddy, Troy.  I can’t comment on his blog, but he might read mine.  I wonder, how do you use that track back and what is it all about?

He just recommended a ds website that I’ve seen before, DUSTY.  Added it right into my Bloglines. And I see that he’s set up a framework for upcoming Professional Development with technology.

I am starting to push my tech team to planning for the fall. I always want to get the team to the blog but that’s a challenge.  I think, given my work this summer at our SI, I pushed in a Tech Literacy Strand and got the group blogging once a week as a community and slowly and patiently the group got to feel more comfortable working in the lab on the web tools.  I’d like to see the team blog more.  I think that they also need to feel more like a group.

I want to hear more about what happens with Troys’ monthly meetings.  I am always taking advantage of his thoughts about all this web 2.0.  I can’t wait for more.

We are planning for a November Conference, just before the NWP conference in NYC, call it a dry run.  I am thinking about a model I experienced as a presenter: a keynote( maybe Kevin Hodgson), and then two sessions without lunch.  We just serve snacks all morning.

I’m already thinking about having some of the workshops that are doubles: wikis for one/DS another… and then maybe single… And keep the numbers set.

And then what comes after November??? But that’s down the line…

Maybe after November, how the team fits with rest of the site…

So far I’ve heard from Trace, Kirk, Kerri, Tracey and Julie Jee.

Still out there: Don, Steve, Laurie and Elyse.  Vacationing I hope.