1 CommentJust finishing up a Web2.0 Course
This past week I took a course at USM entitled “The Read/Write Web in the Classroom“. The course was taught by Alice Barr. It was a great experience seeing the teachers that took part in the course get excited about all the tools available to them in the world of Web2.0. The growth that all of the teachers in the class showed over the course of the week was truly amazing. I really enjoyed the time it provided me to work on some projects for the upcoming school year. Collaborating with Stephanie Cheney was a great part of this course as well.
I’m looking to set up a student tech team at HMS this school year. I was able to get a blog set up for the students that they can use to create a podcast as well as a wiki that they’ll use to build a support site for HMS students and teachers. I’m really excited to get started with this group.
Blogging for Administrators
Dean Shareski has a great podcast about blogging and RSS. It’s a presentation he recorded that he did for administrators. He also has the slides for the presentation on SlideShare. It made me think about the idea of discussions I had yesterday with our technology team about using blogs for teacher portfolios.
- Why not share the hard work being done with others?
- Why not allow conversations to occur around the work that is being done through comments?
The possibilities of administrators to subscribe to their teachers work in order to know how they are doing towards reaching goals is tremendous. Teachers and administrators cannot afford to not learn about blogs and RSS. The possibilities these two technologies hold is amazing.
