This is my first entry about this topic, but I plan to make many more in the weeks, months, and (hopefully) years to come.  I’m fortunate enough to work with Kent Matsueda, Kate Twoey, Penny Ralston-Berg, and Jen Berthage.  For this note, I’m going to comment on the tools that we’re using for the project.

Since Penny lives in Wisconsin and works from a distance, we have used a couple of virtual meeting tools: 

• Polycom
• Elluminate Live

To get a better grip visually on our topic, we are using mindmeister.  This is my first foray into the tool and I have found it to be user friendly. 

To manage the project, we initially decided to use ning.  Unfortunately, ning decided to become a pay site, so we shifted gears.  Instead we formed an ANGEL group.  Much discussion followed about how to organize and post articles and other resources.  We decided because of the fleeting nature of items on the net to include pdf’s of articles when possible along with links.  I like the way things are looking in the site, especially the icons that Kent chose to represent the different items. 

Diigo is another tool that we are using to annotate articles that we find.  It is such a powerful tool!  I’m highlighting, making comments, and sharing with the group from the web page.

I’m very excited about this project and look forward to what we find.