This is my plea to get you registering.
You're hopefully subscribing to some education blogs and some tech blogs, giving you access to all the new Web 2.0 sites and applications. I know I am. Luckily, for me, I've got an uncommon last name. If I didn't, it would be even more important for me to start grabbing my username at every site I think I may possibly use even once some day in the distant future.
That means you can find me as MrGoerend at:
http://drop.io/MrGoerend
http://mrgoerend.podomatic.com/
http://mrgoerend.pbworks.com/
http://mrgoerend.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/MrGoerend
This also makes it so I can separate my classroom accounts from my personal/professional accounts. This isn't to say that I'm pretending to be one person with one account and a different person with another account. I don't hide the fact that this is my blog. I'm looking forward to the first time a student says, "Mr. G, I read your blog last night!" Having the two different "personas" online simply makes for easier organization. Can you imagine how chaotic it would be if I tried to have this blog stand in as both the place where I reflect on life as a teacher and the place where I post assignments? In a world of free blogs, that makes no sense. I'm all about transparency, but I'd like to avoid needless confusion. Wow, that was a digression I didn't see coming when I started this post.
So, decide on a username and start registering at those sites. I'm slowly adding to a list of Web 2.0-related links here. Please do yourself a favor and subscribe to Richard Byrne's amazing resource, FreeTech4Teachers.com.
