Isn't it truly fantastic? Once people start exploring the web and its magnetism, how this energy bites people and spreads.
At school recently, our ICTPD facilitator took a staff meeting on Web2 and the use of educational wikis and blogs. Since then one of our fantastic teachers has created an amazing blog at http://room2bbps.blogspot.com . The rest of the staff are all busy now working out how to incorporate them into our classrooms - it's great to now have an expert on staff to help us! We were inspired also by the work of Rachel Boyd in her class blog at http://room9nelsoncentral.blogspot.com .
As a staff we are going to change the way we communicate our daily news messages and have set up a wikispace to facilitate this. Recently I was at a seminar day for local school leaders and the presenter said she would email the chairperson and then get her to email us the resources - problem solved ( I set up a wiki for that too!).
The possiblities are endless - it's just being innovative in our thinking and putting it to use without being hung - up with all the red tape... I don't think for a second our "digital natives" are being as cautious as [us] "digital immigrants" to try web2 sharing.
Get the bug - just do it!
2 comments:
Hi Justine,
Thanks for the mention. Great to see you have a edublog and are actively sharing your resources... it's fantastic to be able to see what others are doing in their classrooms... we don't do enough of that :)
Cheers, Rachel, Nelson
http://rachelboyd.blogspot.com/
Web 2.0 tools- They are great... The World of education is flattening out too with you being able to have direct contact with the presentor and share those resources in a meaningful way.
i think it fantastic you school is embrassing wikis etc for school notices. Do you want to come tell my school about it? my throat is getting sore.
Simon
Skype id: Dragon09
www.educatingthedragon.edublogs.org
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