Hello everyone who happens to still be following. I have to tell you the wiki is a great hit. kids are logging on at home, coming in before the school day starts to get on to do an assignment. They send messages to each other via the comments at the bottom of the page. I had it up for open house and they jumped on to show their parents and siblings.
My challenge now is to keep it fresh and interesting. of course they will help. When they turn in their reports from the owl pellets inquiry lab I will post all of them on the wiki and they will comment on at least two, giving good feedback (one good, one needs improving). I did get all the students their own passwords from pbworks so I can track all edits. It works great.
They did listen to the voicethread (under Ecology Unit in the directory) and thought it was "way cool" Only one headphone set up didn't work but tech is on it. I paid $10 for the extra priveliges so now I have to figure out how to get them to sign in and comment. They will also make their own.
My 20week biology class is not into the blog at all. So I am using it strictly for adding my power points and assignments. It worked great the first day a student needed notes. I sent her to the computer and she got on the blog and took notes from the ppt that I embedded using slideboom.
I think this will be more for direct content from class instead of dialogue which is ok. Maybe some will get use to it and I will get some postings.
If anyone can help with the voicethread account please let me know.
How is your foray into technology going this year?
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Hi Sandy,
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad for you that you are able to use the technology, and that at least some of your kids are really responding to that. I also read your next blog post - I do hope that the next level(?) of permissions came through for you.
It has not gone so smoothly for me. I do have my wiki linked to the school webpage, so students and parents can move from the school website to the wiki, and I have had someone find a blog server which can be used from school, but I haven't even had time to take the students to the computer lab to show them what I'm looking for.
Your postings have motivated me to work at this again - thanks.
Cherri