Yesterday, I was at Bay Port High School (btw, what a beautiful school!!!) to teach a session called “Using Blogs and Wikis in the Classroom” for the Summer Instructional Technology Academy. There were about 20 teachers who were all great–all self starters and really excited to learn something new about blogs and wikis and how they could integrate them in their teaching.
I had set up some wiki pages for the course, and it mostly went well, mostly.
We hit a snag when not everyone could access an email account to get their edublogs password. There were a few who never did get to open a blog and play with it. If this would have been me, I would have been very disappointed. I wish I had remembered that they would need access to an email account and had them all get a gmail or other web mail account (some tried to get gmail from the school but were denied).
On the more positive side, I think everyone left with a better sense of what they can do with a blog or a wiki or both. I promised to update the wiki site with resources for them.
We had three hours. We could have used three days. In the future, I would probably not try to do both blogs and wikis in one class. It’s too much!
If you’re out there, SITA class, let me know how things are going and what I can do to help.
0 responses so far ↓
There are no comments yet...Kick things off by filling out the form below.
Leave a Comment