Ning

I'm so glad we've had a chance to explore the Global Education Collaborative...I think we need to get involved with this and other groups to find out what others are doing and share our own best practices.

Next step - marketing China in the World on these sites!

Googlyness

I think that Google Docs has huge potential, and Jenn R. and myself have just started to collaborate on a document in it. Seems to work fairly well, although the tables were hard to manipulate. I think it's a good alternative to Shared Docs for documents that are in progress, in particular. It's still not quite the same functionally as MS Word or Excel, but for most things it should suffice.

Google Calendar would be an amazing improvement over our current system. I think it would be much easier to schedule meetings with others and see what space is available! It's so much more elegant and user-friendly than our current system.

Wikis!

I've actually used wikis before - once to share recipes with my family and once to plan our honeymoon. I've switched over to Google Docs for collaboration, but I think wikis are a bit more flexible. I can definitely see applications for our work. Perhaps teachers in a course could complete a wiki for other educators about a particular topic, or about ways to globalize your classroom, as part of course assignment. You could even include student work samples. It would be a great marketing tool if we ended up with a polished site, as well.

web 2.0

I'm a bit ashamed of how long it's taken me to return to 12 things, but I'm back!

I looked over dozens of the web 2.0 winners, and had trouble deciding which to focus on. I decided to take a closer look at LinkedIn, a site that I'm already involved in but not taking full advantage of.

I went ahead and began increasing my contact list and updated my profile...I think this site has great personal and professional potential - and I'm going to keep up with it!