Today, everyone I spoke to had to endure it as I listed off all the things I already learned to do last night in just the first meeting of my Digital Writing course: subscribe to RSS feeds, create a blog, create an IGoogle page, get started on Moodle. It isn't so much that I am technically inept--I know my way enough around a computer to learn new things--it's just that it isn't often that I find the time or the inclination to play around enough to pick these things up.
This is exactly why I like being a student. When you are a student, your mind is always presented with new challenges and you are essentially forced to break your old routines in exchange for learning new things. What I am most excited about as far as this class is concerned is that this is the first time in a long time that I have really felt like a student. I have many things to learn and I am excited about that. As a graduate student, I've spent a lot of time in my coursework building on concepts I am already familiar with so that I might become a "master" (although I am dubious as to whether it's possible to ever be one of those or if I want to be one of those). As I took the survey about my digital knowledge and experience, I realized there are many concepts and technologies that I have little to no experience with, which means that I'll be adding new tools to my arsenal. I've always fancied myself as a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none kind of person, and I'm eager to be a jack of the digital trade.
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I'm glad to hear you are sharing with colleagues. One thing is pretty clear from current research: the single biggest catalyst for technology integration in school systems is individual teachers who for whatever reason are pursuing and sharing new technologies on their own.
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