Leadership Class

I have really enjoyed the information that is being presented in the leadership class. It is interesting. These articles definitely apply to my role as an ITRT.

RSS Aggregator and Blogs

It was nice to see the tools that are out there to use with this technology. It was also great to see the different ways blogs could be used. I have used blogs with 2 5th grade classrooms but would like to expand it next year. It is a great medium and the kids love it. I also liked the idea of having a staff blog. It would be an added tool for the teachers. I can't wait to get started.

Other Blogs

It has been so nice to go through and read and comment on other blogs. It seems that there is a concensus to feeling overwhelmed. But we are almost there. The graduation experience put everything into perspective. I am so glad that I decided to attend. I had such a feeling of accomplishment.

Blogging in 5th grade

Mary Hefner and I wrote a Ntier grant titled, Pods and Blogs. Her school created podcasts for my school to listen to and my school wrote journal entries for her school to respond to. We had some technical difficulties but overall it was an enjoyable experience. Eventually, we were both doing blogs. We would post a question and the students would have to respond. Our content focused on History. We would post a question ~ List the events leading to the Revolutionary War and describe them. The students would go in to gaggle.net and post their responses. It was very simplistic but it was a different medium for assessing the student's understanding of the content.

Our first class

Last night was our first class. We got an overview of what will be expected and where we are going. I enjoyed watching the video. It was fast paced. It kind of correlates with how fast technology is changing and growing. I have never used Wikipedia, so I am very excited to learn about it. I have worked with blogs. In the fall, I had 2 classes of 5th graders using blogs to review the History SOLs. They loved it. I think I am going to learn alot in this final semester!