Ah, the pressures of blogging and wanting to say something useful. Maybe that’s why I post so infrequently. If I average a post a month, that’s a good year for me. We’re in a different position from other bloggers because we’re in the Pied Piper role. We’re charged with leading the teachers on the edu-tech fence and those burrowed in their comfortable approaches to teaching into new and often unreliable approaches to their curriculum. Our enthusiasm for blogs, wikis, and other Web 2.0 tools can only carry us so far. I often find it hard to keep my tech-lingo in check when discussing possible projects with teachers. This year I found that when I showed teachers a sample of the end product and got them to create one themselves, it gave them more control and huge boost of confidence.