What do you call a blogger who thinks he has no time to blog? I guess you'd call him me! Many teachers have things they want to work on each year...some call it turning over a "new leaf." I do believe this year, I'm turning over a whole tree!
My 8th graders are in the midst a grand online experiment. I've officially Web 2.0-ed my class. We are blogging, emailing, social bookmarking, chatting, and "wiki-ing." The pieces we are focusing on the most are the impact of email, chat, and wikis.
So here is how I think we'll do this blog: I love to podcast! Unfortunately, I don't want to throw some sloppy sounding podcast together, so I'll probably wait til the holidays to podcast. I'm also still wanting others to produce podcasts for the site, and the offer still stands. Finally, I'll use the blog as a journal for my class experiment. So, if you are interested in using wikis at school or other web resources, add TECHILC to your aggergator and we'll do the best we can to keep everyone up-to-date.
Please be sure to leave a comment if you are using online resources. I'd love to put a blog up detailing your progress.
Below is a list of our "little experiments."
Blessings on your school year!!
Rob
Class Blogmeister
8th Grade Delicious site
Mr. Jacklin's Wikis
Or is it something else?
As I write this from my brother-in-laws home in Milwaukee, I'm keenly aware of the power of the Internet. I can be somewhere completely different and still have access too all of my stuff! On the seven hour drive up here from St. Louis, I finally had time to catch up on all of my podcasts. One statement in particular made by Cheryl Oakes from the Bob Sprankle, "Bit by Bit" podcast really struck me. She was talking about using read/write resources in the classroom she said something to the effect of: It's not so much about the technology, as it is about the collaboration that happens with the technology.
I couldn't have put it better myself. What makes the Internet, blogging, podcasting, wikis, and tons of the other online apps. Effective, is the way they bring students together to work with one another and share ideas. I personally as a teacher tend to have a real top-down approach to content in my classroom, but read/write resources make learning take place on a horizontal plane as opposed to the vertical, hierarchical approach. I often find myself being the "Sage on the Stage" more than the "Guide on the Side." Read/Write web resources empower students to not only learn from me, but also from others. In most cases, the learning done from others is more effective than from me!
I'll presenting at the Missouri District Educators Conference in November on Web 2.0 resources and why we should use them in the classroom. If you have any success stories, you would like me to share, please add them as comments to this blog. I know Dave Black mentioned in his Lutheran Tech blog about using Wikipedia with a class. All comments are welcome.
How have you been using blogs, podcasts, wikis, online forums, or chat in your classroom! We are listening and want to acknowledge the great work that you do!!
We might actually have another podcast coming out soon! I recorded one at my house, but can't get the template which I have on the school server to my house, or vice versa. The files are too big! I could just upload them from home, but I still have a dialup connection at home and that would take forever!! So hopefully, we'll get one recorded and up soon!
If you have something you would like to podcast about, let me know. I'm not the only one who will podcast or blog from this site. Get in contact with me, and I'd love to have you be a contributing author to TECHILC!!
Have a great 4th of July holiday!!
In His Service,
Rob
I couldn't have put it better myself. What makes the Internet, blogging, podcasting, wikis, and tons of the other online apps. Effective, is the way they bring students together to work with one another and share ideas. I personally as a teacher tend to have a real top-down approach to content in my classroom, but read/write resources make learning take place on a horizontal plane as opposed to the vertical, hierarchical approach. I often find myself being the "Sage on the Stage" more than the "Guide on the Side." Read/Write web resources empower students to not only learn from me, but also from others. In most cases, the learning done from others is more effective than from me!
I'll presenting at the Missouri District Educators Conference in November on Web 2.0 resources and why we should use them in the classroom. If you have any success stories, you would like me to share, please add them as comments to this blog. I know Dave Black mentioned in his Lutheran Tech blog about using Wikipedia with a class. All comments are welcome.
How have you been using blogs, podcasts, wikis, online forums, or chat in your classroom! We are listening and want to acknowledge the great work that you do!!
We might actually have another podcast coming out soon! I recorded one at my house, but can't get the template which I have on the school server to my house, or vice versa. The files are too big! I could just upload them from home, but I still have a dialup connection at home and that would take forever!! So hopefully, we'll get one recorded and up soon!
If you have something you would like to podcast about, let me know. I'm not the only one who will podcast or blog from this site. Get in contact with me, and I'd love to have you be a contributing author to TECHILC!!
Have a great 4th of July holiday!!
In His Service,
Rob
Online Collaborative Community!
I'm on a mission....No, not a mission from God.....but I'm on a mission to connect my school with other Lutheran schools across the country in an online community. Would you like to be a part?
I've spoken with the folks from Gaggle.net and they would be able to create a group or "district" of Lutheran schools. What does this mean for you?
Gaggle.net provides FILTERED student email, online digital storage, Teacher monitored live chat, student blogs, and multiple teacher, student, and group forums, and more.
Gaggle.net offers a free version of everything I mentioned above but it is riddled with advertisements. The subscription version is $4.25 per student an has NO ads for students to look at it.
If you would be interested, please comment to this blog with contact information.
I've spoken with the folks from Gaggle.net and they would be able to create a group or "district" of Lutheran schools. What does this mean for you?
Gaggle.net provides FILTERED student email, online digital storage, Teacher monitored live chat, student blogs, and multiple teacher, student, and group forums, and more.
Gaggle.net offers a free version of everything I mentioned above but it is riddled with advertisements. The subscription version is $4.25 per student an has NO ads for students to look at it.
If you would be interested, please comment to this blog with contact information.
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