Wired Educator

I just downloaded the WordPress Blogging Application for my iPhone. (I downloaded it on my iPhone from my pool via WiFi. Cool!) WordPress is the app we use to create this blog.

“So?” you ask.”What does this have to do with Education Tech?” Lots. First, this will enhance Wired Educator as we blog from conferences, tech sessions, and from various travels. Updating the site from the road and spontaneously. Second, it has just added to the increasing list of jobs I am now doing on my phone. I am using my laptop and desktop less and less as more applications become available. Last, it has now solidified my view of classroom blogging. I have truly been sitting on the fence with blogging as a part of my classroom, but now I see incredible uses and have confirmed the safety features. It is just a matter of approval and implementation. (More on classroom blogging on another post.) Now with this WordPress app, Wired Educators can post from fieldtrips and anywhere learning is taking place. And quickly too! Post those magic moments. Archive those wonderful lessons and success. Document your work. I am very excited.

I wrote and published this entire post from my iPhone. I even discovered it automatically saves when my phone goes off. Handhelds are coninuously taking bigger roles in schools, and in life. Here is another plus for iPods in the classroom.