Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2009 1 Comment »
As I have stated in some of my older posts, wikis are great tools to use for collaborating, compiling research, and distributing information. There are various free wiki sites that you can use for your personal use or classroom. Here are some further resources with ideas on how to teach and use wikis:
Wiki Walk Through [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
One thing that METC accomplished was to reinforce over and over that we have to change our way of teaching and reaching our present day students. Meg Ormiston presented the keynote entitled Culture Clash! Wired Kids in Text Driven Classrooms. The remark that she stressed many times is that we are boring our kids and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2008 3 Comments »
One of the most helpful weekly newsletters that I receive through my email is from TeachersFirst. TeachersFirst is a large collection of lessons and ideas to use in the classroom along with other resources to support teachers. One of their services is to search out and review resources throughout the web that can be used [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, internet on Sep 14th, 2008 6 Comments »
School is back in session and its time to return to my blog. This summer I have been exploring many different sites and blogs along with bookmarking ones that have interested me. Now its time to write about some of them. One of the blogs that I have listed on my Google [...]
Posted in wikis on Nov 14th, 2007 4 Comments »
If you are looking for more guidance on how to use wikis in the classroom, you might want to read Michelle R. Davis’s article “Wiki Wisdom: Lessons for Educators” posted on the edweek.org website. It lists some educational wikis along with discussing potential problems that you are going to want to avoid such as security [...]
