Amazon.com sent me a recommendation for books I might like based on some of my previous searching/purchases. I wasn't extremely interested in the book suggested, but it did lead me to some titles that piqued my interest: Redefining Literacy 2.0 and Moodle Teaching Techniques.
Since one of our school districts uses Moodle and currently doesn't allow teachers or students access to other blogging and wiki sites maybe we need to explore how and what Moodle has to offer so that we can support those teachers with similar activities adapted to the Moodle platform.
Getting participants to blog....
I don't think it should be this hard...we are asking participants (classroom teachers) to blog twice a month about what technology they are using, how it's going, what they are learning from the implementation, what problems they are having, if they want help... I don't know why there seem to only be about 3 teachers (out of 34 or so) that are doing this??? I eventually post comments on those that post...I feel like I've sent out the same e-mail too many times, so maybe it's time to take a new approach.
I think that I might send out another e-mail with, lets say, three specific questions we want answered before Thanksgiving. This assignment should take no more than 15 minutes of their time, even if they have to do the blogging at home I think this is a reasonable request!
Another idea is to do individualized e-mails to each participant that has not been blogging....
At least many of them responded to my request for which textbooks they are using.
I think that I might send out another e-mail with, lets say, three specific questions we want answered before Thanksgiving. This assignment should take no more than 15 minutes of their time, even if they have to do the blogging at home I think this is a reasonable request!
Another idea is to do individualized e-mails to each participant that has not been blogging....
At least many of them responded to my request for which textbooks they are using.
November 1st
Hoping that the reminder to blog twice a month helps with getting some current responses from some of our Teaching Math in a Technical World (TMTW) participants. I did get a fair number of replies to my "what text books are you using?" e-mail. those that I have not heard of at all it might be time to e-mail them a personal note asking how things are going.
I played around with Edublogs a little bit and think that it could be a very good platform for jr high/high school teachers to use that is "more secure" or "private". I may set up a "dummy" class and see how it looks and works...
That's all for now...
I played around with Edublogs a little bit and think that it could be a very good platform for jr high/high school teachers to use that is "more secure" or "private". I may set up a "dummy" class and see how it looks and works...
That's all for now...