Jun 27 2008
Blogs and Wikis in the Elem Classroom
Friday morning. Just sitting in potentially the most informative course of the week. I will post as I listen (if possible). Two class spaces listed on the board as I arrived:
Fourth Grade Teacher at an IB school in Commerce City. Obviously these sites are not blocked at they are in my district, now beginningto talk, so I will post and listen. Begins with — I want to tell you HOW to use these tools in the Elementary classroom. I am excited to learn. Instructor has a wiki up – has a link to a page for TIE for this seminar with questions for seminar participants. We can post comments to his questions live and all can see live updates continuously.
We are starting a district hosted blog, wiki site this fall. I have asked to be a part. After seeing the possiblilities, i intenet to contact my G/T teacher. I think some of the writing activities she does with 4th of 5th grade would be a good place to start – then if I can look for ideas for students to respond to we could increase opportunites for students to write in ways that would get them excited about writing as a way of expression. The 5th Grade social studies unit also might be a good place for students to collaborate on a wiki writing “assignment” that could possibly turn into a perpetual student-led collaboration.
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I am using the dist. wiki with 3rd and 5th grade and soon 1st grade. We are using it also with the entire staff. It is becoming a great tool for collaboration! I just read a great article in Educational Leadership Feb. 2009 titled “Learning with Blogs and Wikis” More great resources and ideas. There is so much more to this than just a few comments made by a few people. Although we aren’t necessarily the frontrunners in all of this, at least we are moving forward.