First Attempt November 28, 2007
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After digging around in the Web 2.0 world for a couple of weeks now, I decided it was time to try it out. I created a wiki and presented it to our staff at the faculty meeting on Monday. It started with three questions and very little formatting. I did no training with them other than to show them the website and ask them to feel free to add whatever comments they would like. In two days several comments have been posted and a conversation is beginning to develop. I’m very excited about this because I think it means that our staff is wanting to use technology in a more meaningful way in their teaching.
New questions after IETC November 16, 2007
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I just spent 2 days at the Illinois Educational Technology Conference in Springfield, IL. I came home with more information that has challenged my thoughts of how we use technology in the classoom in my district. I can see a need to change what I have been doing and look at new ways of incorporating web 2.0 technologies, I’m just not sure where to begin.
I suppose it has to begin with some personal exploring and learning these technologies for myself before I can teach it to our staff and have them use it with students. To that end, I am going to continue this blog and hope that some of the leaders in the field will chime in and help guide my learning. I also am looking at several other tools such as twitter and delicious. I plan to follow some of the tech leaders that I have been aquainted with lately, Will Richardson, Dave Jakes and Marc Prensky just to name a few.
Web 2.0 Primer November 7, 2007
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Today’s workshop on Web2.0 technologies with Will Richardson has sparked some new ideas for me. I have thought for a long time that we should be using these technologies in our classrooms, but to this point I have been unsure of how to convince faculty that it is imperative that we use them.
***We BLOCK instead of TEACH***
Although, I don’t think these words were actually used in today’s workshop, their meaning was an underscore to everything we did today. These technologies exist and our students are using them. Instead of filtering these sites and technologies, we have to be sure that they learn how to use social networking technologies for good and for their own educational value.
***Changing the teacher’s role***
The teacher’s new role is to create connections between their students and the people who can teach them what they want to know.
***The Blog is the classroom, RSS feeds create the textbook***
