Post for week one.
How will I use my blog to integrate technology into my blog.  Pretty simple, I will listen to Brian's suggestions, and look at the examples that he has been providing us.  I was interested in his students generated blogs.  Both his and the other ones he put on the class blog as examples.  This is my 4th project with the group, and one of the best parts of the class is getting to pick the brains of the other participants about ideas of how to do cool stuff in the classroom.
To this point, I have used previous blogs from the trips to show my students different aspects of WV culture as we go through the year.  As part of the timber and rail class last year, we visited  the town of Beverly in Randolph County WV.  I was amazed at the rich resource the museum provided in materials for my class, WV Studies.  Topics displayed-  Settlement, First West Virginians, Transportation (both R&R's and Turnpikes) government, Civil War.  I hope to go back to Beverly and add more to some of my lessons.  I also in-bed questions into some post for students to read and answer or think about and discuss.
One of my Timber and Rail lessons that I am teaching this week on the timber industry involves stations and it is working really well so i intend to do a similar lesson with stations on the economics of glass, and this year one of the stations will involve one of my blog post from the trip on economics of glass, possibly from the Blenko visit.  IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS ABOUT THIS SHARE THEM WITH ME.