Q: What did you like about the class? What didn’t you like? What were your favorite and least favorite tasks? If you could change something about the class, what would you change? Where will you go from here? Do you think this class will influence what you do in the classroom? How?
A: I pretty much [...]
I wanted to pick something easy and quick to teach. So, while I’m willing to teach lots of different tools, it fell to the RSS training as a default. Quick, dirty, and easy. I snagged David and Becca as willing test subjects. I taught Becca, then David. I think David [...]
We’ve been using a wikispace for class. Lina set up the one for the first page, and then I added the welcome page and designed the second subject page for the class. Our plan is to do at least one for each of the major units we do this academic year. The kids loved the [...]
I went through all the suggested websites on the Task. I think the most useful one is WriteBoard. I was thinking about using a wiki for a collaborative writing project my kids do in the fall. I think this program will be much more useful.
I don’t know that this serves an academic [...]
I like delicious, but I sometimes forget to use it. This year I used it to mark a bunch of websites, some of which I used for our election unit. I will use it again for the upcoming unit on Human Rights. It makes life easier since we don’t always use the same computer for [...]
I love wikis. I used them on a road trip I took to get suggestions from friends and family on where to go and what to see on the road. I’ll be using it again for a trip to Spain. I’m not traveling alone on this one. The wiki will give [...]
I liked the program of Flashcard Friends. I could see recommending students use it for vocab review. I’d want them to make their own cards, though..because I think the act of writing or typing and seeing words helps add a layer to remember. I could see it coming really in handy for [...]
I am notoriously bad at keeping up with my Google Reader, but I find that when I do take the time, I find a bunch of interesting info. I just added the Wall Street Journal’s health news. (I’ve got a lot of medical folks in my family.) I read an interesting article [...]
I found an article called “Innovate, or Die.” What struck me about the article was the assertion that the current generation of students are geared to be producers of media. They expect to create and share, almost instantaneously. What does that do to levels of discernment? I can create and post, but does that mean [...]
There is definitely a style to blogging. The writing tends to be either rather succinct and to the purpose of answering a specific question or less formal, more conversational. I tend to lean more toward the latter in terms of finding blogs that hook me. This isn’t out of the norm for [...]
