State of the Project (so far)
I have been spending a good part of this summer’s theoretical vacation from teaching trying to organize myself for next year.
Some of this work has been the typical curriculum planning that I have been fortunate enough to do with some of my colleagues. I have been able to work with a fellow science teacher (I teach 7th and 8th grade science in a Northern Westchester County district middle school) to create some interesting cooperative learning activities for our 7th graders. And I have spent some time working with a special education teacher with whom I will be co-teaching a section of 8th grade science.
All of this work has been productive and I feel good about it.
I have also been spending time learning about, thinking about, and planning for making good use of various internet technologies in my classroom. I have read Will Richardson’s book and blog; I have been reading blogs like The Thinking Stick and G-town talks and I have set up this blog to get a sense of how it all can work.
I would like to report myself moving ahead fearlessly. I am totally behind the ideas presented in the various edublogs. I am inspired by what I see educators doing with blogs and wikis and podcasts. I am just having some difficulty seeing where to start.
I used a fair amount of internet projects with my students this past one. I set up a website celebrating the last project with my 7th graders, where some students set up websites, recorded and posted a podcast, did some animations and PowerPoint presentations.
So, I guess I am having some difficulty figuring out where to start. Here are the two most developed ideas so far. First, to set up a classroom blog where students can respond to various articles. The second is to set up a class wiki so they students and I can collaborate on a class text.
More as it happens.
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