This summer I have stretched, groaned, celebrated, and learned an incredible amount about applying Web 2.0 tools well in professional growth and in working with my students. I’ve always wanted to challenge my students to think deeply and to learn how to learn, not just regurgitate facts they’ll forget by next week.
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I’ve known about Google Docs, but I haven’t really stopped to consider how I might use the program with my students and colleagues. The program is really easy to use. In a matter of minutes, I made a collaborative online document that my language arts students can use to create a class database of recreational [...]
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I was familiar with wikis before this assignment because I collaborated on a portion of a university instructional technology wiki for a graduate class. The process was easy, and I learned a lot about wikis and about the many IT topics that our class investigated; but I must say the thing I [...]
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Digital freedom walks hand in hand with personal responsibility.
Well, if the skill I needed to focus on for this class was “play,” I guess you could say I spent the entire day playing! My blog, Reflecting Pools, is running; and I think I’m pleased at this point. I really spent time playing with the Edublogs [...]
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