After reading Will Richardson blog about the read/write web, Pushing Writing Literacy, I was intrigued by his ideas. I have been reading his book as part of a technology class and have heard him speak about this age of technology and how teachers should be using more of it with their students, but how can we? I am puzzled by how I can incorporate all this new technology (blogs, pod casts, Twitter, RSS feeds, wikis, digital works, etc) into a class when I have limited access to the technology and limited time to learn about while still planning, correcting and teaching.

I would love to have students create digital videos of Edgar Allen Poe short stories and would love to have them create online books with student-created illustrations and public service announcements about social issues that concern them, but will computer labs tied up in keyboarding classes, programing classes, and application classes, just getting the students to the lab twice a week to word process an writing assignment is a challenge.

Laptops for all students would help, but so would additional funding for the technology tools like subscriptions to online programs, quality digital cameras and video recorders, editing tools, and the like. When that happens and I am trained well on all of there tools, then maybe magic can happen in my classroom, and reading and writing will take on a whole new meaning to students.