Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2009 No Comments »
After reading Chapter 4 “Wikis” from the book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, I am rethinking the best use of my classroom wikispace. It points out that wikis are used to edit information and it states on page 59 that “wikis are not as good as blogs at carrying on [...]
Posted in Effective Teaching on Jun 25th, 2009 2 Comments »
Wikis are an easy-to-use, effective tool for teachers to use professionally and in the classroom. I currently have two wikispaces. One is used by the staff at our school and one is used by my students.
Staff members have been using wesbookstudy.wikispaces.com for various book studies. Last summer was our first year to attempt a book [...]
Posted in Effective Teaching on Jun 25th, 2009 No Comments »
The past two years I have used a classroom blog. I have found it to be benefial to my teaching. The students visit it on a weekly basis in the computer lab, individually in the classroom, and from time to time a student may blog from home. They are asked to visit the sites on [...]
