All These Tools, Now How to Use Them

As I first began to search through the requirements and expectations of this course, I was beginning to have thought about dropping out and finding another master's program.  Well maybe it wasn't that extreme but I was having trouble trying to figure out how all these pieces fit into the puzzle of effectively using them in the classroom.  But the course text we have, "Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms" by Will Richardson really put things into perspective.  On pages 9 - 11, he does a remarkable job of explaining each of the tools we will be learning about and how they all relate to on another.  I was trying to see a practical application for these tools but as I read through the chapter, it started to make sense.  Now mind you, that doesn't alleviate the stress about having to learn the details on how to use each one, but it certainly helped me to understand that it is "doable" if I take the time to effectively employ them for my class.