Aaron Campbell has some pretty interesting ideas for implementing some of these tools in his classrooms. He’s an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher who’s doing some great thinking about how to make all of this work. With Podcasting, for instance:
I just listened to Dave Winer’s Nov. 1st podcast this morning as he rambled on about this and that and I realized that it would valuable to produce a short 10-15 min weekly broadcast designed specifically for my students; one in which I could speak naturally about extensions on the various themes and topics covered in class while introducing relevant phrases and recycling vocabulary, not to mention current events, music, and movies. Not only could I present a link to the Mp3 file on the web, but I could also email it to their cell phones if they so wished. Now, if I only had an iPod…
(Btw, if you want a pretty decent rundown of Podcasting and some ideas for using it, see this post at Contentious.)
Aaron’s got ideas for flickr and wikis that are worth checking out as well.
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I’m prepping for a two-day workshop on the read/write web for Ed. D. candidates at Seton Hall this weekend and I’ve found a few pretty interesting education related Weblog sites to add to the list.
Board Buzz is the blog for the National School Boards Association, and they obviously know what they’re doing. Administrators might want to subscribe to the feed.
Hamilton-Maineville Elementary is out of Pam’s district in Ohio. (I wonder how Pam is doing, btw???)
Mrs. White’s Class is another great example of a elementary school blog in the Little Miami district.
Bryant School is not new but it’s still a great example of a school homepage/Weblog.
Coe School’s Principal Page is new principal’s blog that has weekly postings about goings on at the school.
Puget Sound Educational Service District looks like they have great plans for blogs with the Achievement Gap Weblog, NCLB Weblog, Special Ed. Weblog and a host of others.
Weblogging at the Institute St. Joseph is another site I’ve written about here before, but Mario Asselin’s narrative in English here gives a great overview of one of the more successful blog in school implementations out there.
Sarah Plain and Tall was a blog project between two schools in New Jersey and Texas to read and discuss the novel. The results are worth taking a look at.
Shoeless And Bark Online Project Blog is a Weblog companion to a yearlong Lewis and Clark project from technospudsprojects.com
Douglas Elementary in Boulder, Colorado is a Weblog/homepage with a great use of graphics.
If you know of any more worth checking out, let me know. It’s cool to see more and more teachers kicking the tires these days.
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