Planning for Next Year

As I sit at the beach relaxing I begin to think about next year.  How am I going to do things different? How can I better engage my kids next year?  Well, I am going to try and go totally digital.  I have already started a separate site for each unit of study where I can collect links, documents, videos, and examples of students' work.  I am going to let me kids teach themselves and me new tools and give them more opportunities to create. I have looked at Voice Thread and am very impressed with the ability of the tool.  On the side bar, I have linked to an outstanding example of a 4th grade class using it with their study of encampments of the Japanese Americans during WWII.  You may want to check it out.  I am also going to use more Google products.  I have actually already created a couple of quizzes for the unit.  As I discover more tools that I am going to use I will post updates.