Sunday, April 12, 2009
What Will We Do at MCHS
After our discussion regarding what we will do at MCHS everyone created a wiki or a blog. Please take a minute to share your website address so we can share ideas and thoughts. Visit one anothers sites for some ideas and make suggestions to everyone. Use the space for comments to do this.
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My wiki page address:
www.czysz.wikispaces.com
I am still unsure what avenue I want to pursue with the grant options. I am looking forward to reading what everyone else is going to do.
My wiki is at:
http://taylorg154.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
I will try to link it to this site. There is a feature for inserting a logo. Has anyone done this? I am not having much luck making my front page look very inviting. The idea for this wiki is to have the students post, edit and ultimately create a comprehensive 'help' document for beginning and intermediate machine tool users.
The first step I plan to take is to record some clips of procedures that students would benefit from reviewing from time to time. These would also introduce parents and other interested people to the classes. These lessons are difficult for students to make up after absences without coming in before or after school, so this might make life a little easier. I used the proprietary editing suite that came with the camera and was pretty frustrated with it. I need to use some of the tools we discussed with the segments to get them presentable.
My wiki page address is:
mchsmccafferty.wikispaces.com/
Use:
I plan on developing a wiki page that serves several purposes:
1) a posting board for class information (calendars, worksheets, websites for research, etc…)
2) a posting board for the extracurricular activities/sports/clubs I am a part of (calendars, leave times, pictures, roster, etc…)
3) a place for students to post work (poetry) and projects, especially those that are web-based (MySpace pages, YouTube clips, etc…)
4) a link to a class blog where the students will post discussions, journals, and responses
I will further research diigo.com for research purposes (for English I while reading Night and Of Mice and Men and for any English III unit pre-reading/presenting). Also, I would like to create an example project/presentation on Flickr.com for projects.
Rationale:
Using a “web-based classroom” allows students to be part of the class when they are not there (absent, ISS, OSS). Posting information online gives the students and parents a place to retrieve important documents and information. Most importantly, students are able to expand their education by using more advanced technology and varied presentation software to show off and share their knowledge. Having a web-based area to post these projects, discussions, and questions also serves as a site where we can re-visit and retain discussions that may otherwise have been lost in a classroom.
Hours:
Deciding on which wiki to use (wikispaces, wetpaint.com, PBwiki.com), actually creating the space (and re-creating it…many times!), converting several handouts to MS Word, and uploading them has taken three hours already. To do further research, create examples, and convert and post will probably take another twelve to fifteen hours throughout the summer (maybe more when I get into it). With everything, I foresee this taking about fifteen to eighteen hours to develop the initial version of my wiki for next year’s courses.
The use of Google Docs in the classroom seems like it could be beneficial.
I want to use my elmo!
We need more technology in our schools
Blogs in the classroom or moodle
Moodle would be cool
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