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19 comments:
I am most likely to use GoogleDocs and Delicious. I have been telling almost everyone about how cool GoogleDocs is and my experience using it last week to create a paper with a group. Because of GoogleDocs, we were able to collaborate on our assignment, each contribute our own ideas, modify and revise our work. We did all that without being in the same physical location and without using a single sheet of paper.
Through Assignment 1 I have started using Delicious and on a personal level, I am seeing how useful it is to have all my important bookmarks in one location. I am not currently working with students, but I can definitely see how Delicious can be used to focus their research on a given topic.
I haven't had much experience with blogging so I thinking this will be the first adoption. I'd like to create a school blog for this year...if the application is not blocked.
I am excited about introducing podcasts at my school. I think I will start with a small ELA group that I work with two days a week. If I can get them going on book reviews through podcasts, I can rely on them to help teach the rest of the class. I also really like the collaborative reading sites like Shelfari. I would like to try to use it to help kids choose the books they want to read.
Mark Richards (the shiny, new one)
As soon as I have a spare moment I'm going to finish signing up for Delicious. What a cool site! I am definitely also going to start listening to podcasts - I'd love to check out a Nancy Pearl booktalk or see what other resources are available through itunesuniversity. I'd like to learn how to record podcasts and post them in a website or a PowerPoint as well.
I'm a really interested in starting a blog for my reading group this year. I think it would be fun to assign a chapter and then have students comment on it on the blog. Then I could check to see that they've done the work without collecting paper the next day.
I'm really loving the digital booktalks- check out www.digitalbooktalk.com. Joyce Valenza also connects to a few, but she calls them book-movie trailers. They would be great just to use as a booktalk, but I would love to be able to help students and teachers produce their own. Sure beats a poster!
Professional blogs! I have gleaned so much information from librarian and teacher blogs throughout the past year leading up to this class. I have my own fledgling professional blog at http://futurenewmediamaven.wordpress.com. I'd love you all to link to it (save in delicious or Diigo, or subscribe to the RSS)so we can share resources and feel "in the swing of things"!
I visit blogs and I really enjoy podcasts in my personal life, but I would like to bring them into my teaching (pre-librarian stage) My class discussion are good but it seems on the average about 40% of students are the talkers, 40% are the listeners and 20% end up going either way. I would like to use blogs in pre-discussion to shift the balance more.
Another aha moment I had is: many kids do not have good listening skills. I always try to do a visual with my lessons. I thought--podcasts alone fall short --in that arena. Then I thought, no, podcasts involve listening skills. How can we improve students listening skills? Ideas?
Since starting this class, I put a GoodReads widget on my class web page. It's supposed to be better than Shelfari, but I can't remember why. I also am going to use all of the Diigo groups I made in class, so links to those will be going up soon. Podcasts are interesting. I like listening to them, but I don't want to listen to my own voice. So there won't be anything on my site with me blabbing away. I'm also going to have my students use Google for kids and teens, since we have no filter at school. Googledocs is pretty nifty. I might try that next year as well. Lots of good stuff. I also might sign up for Spaghetti Reads
I will be using Google Docs to coordinate with my partners for our assignments in these classes.
I previously used the 23 things, and really want to recommend it to anyone. It is a great (and fun) tutorial. I will also be using and exploring podcasting with my students this year, and hope to incorporate images or move to vodcasting. I have used Flickr very little, probably because I have an extensive 'collection' of my own photos, but I can see it's value for use with curriculum assignments and student presentations.
Wow! So many cool choices ... I want to bring a blog into my Debate class ... like Lee pointed out, many kids just don't contribute to class discussions, and I don't think it's because they have nothing to say. Some people are just more comfortable writing ... I mean look at the texting craze. In my new librarian incarnation I want to use shelfari, and look into what Audra was talking about as far as booktalks (it does seem like a cool site); also, I like the teacher/student reading picks idea. I also want to ramp up into the 21st century by getting into podcasts, and selecting bits to share with students. And so much more ...
So how can we create a blog that encourages commenting on each other's comments more? Threads? Is there a better tool for more back and forth discussion than a standard blog like this one?
I don't have time to explore now, but I think a wiki or a ning may work better. I have loads of ed blogs saved; I'll look this weekend to see if any of their formats are more appropriate for our purposes. But I also wonder if there are settings on this one that would allow us to see running commentary between us . . . Nings tend to be very busy looking; wikis do have threads and forums, so that might be the way to go. Let's share what we find and maybe vote on what we want to use? My first preference for now, I think, would be to make this blog work for us. Thank you! Now stop interrupting my homework, wouldja?
Er, I hope you know I'm only kidding re the interruptions, folks. I love the enthusiasm this class is generating.
I'm very interested in getting my eldest son and I started on a blog. I'm also very interested in using sites like Library Thing and Shelfari as tools and resources for booklists. In general I'm thrilled about being exposed to so many great technologies in such a way that I can appreciate their usefulness for me personally and as an educator.
I used to use Xanga (which technically I still have--the last time it was updated was in 2001!), another blog site and I just checked it out to see whether you could leave comments that respond specifically to a comment that someone else made, and you can. Although it still puts the comment at the end of the list of comments but it says at the beginning who it is replying to. So, it looks like depending on the site, you will have different pros and cons.
I really liked the ning format that we used in a professional development book study class last spring. It allowed us to post a response to an individual's thread about each article or whatever the question at hand was. If anyone wants to see an example of this, let me know; I have it saved on my computer.
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