Lately I’ve been lamenting the challenges of getting teachers to hop on the web 2.0 bandwagon, but I really should be focusing on the infinite enthusiasm of my students to experiment with each and every thing I’ve shown them. I’m especially impressed with one of my sixth grade students, Lilian, who has really embraced these…
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I have a question: I have seen so many amazing projects on the various edublogs I read every day, and many of them feature student images or video of students. How do you deal with having video and/or images of students online? Does your school have an acceptable use policy that gives teachers the ability…
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Peggy (the grade 6 social studies teacher) and I are just about to start a new integrated IT/social studies project on sub-saharan Africa from 500-1700CE. At the same time, I’m completing an Ed Leadership certificate and right now we’re working on the ideas presented in Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design. Since I am…
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I am really starting to get the hang of this whole wiki thing this week. Yes, last week I posted a link to the page on my wiki where I try to convince all teachers that we need to embrace new technologies, but I didn’t really understand how much this technology would change my teaching…
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Slowly but surely I’m getting my mind around these wonderful web 2.0 apps… This week I began my adventures into the world of wikis. As if I wasn’t already inspired enough by Will Richardson’s book, Jeff over at The Thinking Stick has really opened my eyes to the possibilities of wikis with his TeenTek project….
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