Okay, I’ll admit……….last Sunday I was EXTREMELY overwhelmed.  I have always considered myself to be fairly technological savvy.  I use PowerPoint regulary in my classroom; I’ve know how to create a digital storybook; I always use the Internet to search for information I need (I couldn’t even tell you the last time I resorted to using a dictionary or encyclopedia to look up information).  But an aggregator?  That word was totally foreign to me.  I soon started calling it an aggrevator instead of an aggregator because I was aggrevated to death that I couldn’t find one and get it loaded onto my computer!  And then there was the whole feeding the gator thing?  What in the world was I supposed to do with that?  Thank goodness for wikipedia or I would have never discovered the meanings of these new vocabulary words. 

A week later it seems silly that I was so overwhelmed by two little words.  Would you believe I even considered dropping the class at one point (between back to school stress and the long “to do” list last week for this class) I just wasn’t sure that I could handle it all right now.  I’m sure all of you know what I mean by back to school stress……many nights I am still working on things for my kindergarten  students at 10:00.  However, now that I have the first week under my belt I feel like I can handle anything new that comes my way.