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Reflecting on Technology
April 9, 2007 | | 1 Comment
How hard is it to incorporate some of the Web 2.0 tools into your classroom or your library program? I was looking for examples – specific examples – and I found the following:
Using blogs and wikis in Grade 1! A Social Studies Wiki
A Gr. 8 Web Classroom (includes blog, podcast, studycast, class webpage)
A Book Blog (like a novel study but via blog)
Technology takes time. That is what I have learned through this process. It always takes longer than you think it will. That being said, what specifically takes time is finding other sites to link to, or videos to share via YouTube, or technical difficulties that were more associated with setting the blog up in the beginning. Now that the blog is up-and-running, it doesn’t seem that hard to continue, which I think I will. If anything, it keeps a history of all the technological things I have discovered and considered with regards to schools. Months from now if I want to refer back to an article or website, the link will be conveniently located in this blog. Plus, I am hoping to generate discussion (comments) as I go.
I think a good realization I have made is that incorporating technology isn’t too hard, and is really quite important to do. I hope that my explorations through this blog lead to my use of technology in my library, and that this use of technology makes a positive impact on the lives of my students.
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Our elementary school librarians have been using a wiki to have students discuss books.
At our high school library, we’ve used them for training documents, for a government policy project, a Vietnam project, and for the creative writing classes. I find that when teachers want to collect materials collaboratively or have all students to contribute, wikis are a great tool.