What resources do you use to get started? Kathy received some grants and utilized professional development classes. Both of these are good resources for financial support and for help in expanding your personal knowledge about using technology.
Who benefits from this? Parents are able to keep up with their children's progress. Kids get to use what they already love to do their learning and also gain very important skills such as safely using the internet and collaborative learning. So in short, EVERYONE BENEFITS!
Why use the internet? Students have an unlimited audience and a constantly growing PLN.
Why be technologically literate? Technology is not going away! You can learn about technology the same way you are teaching, through a PLN! Search blogs, skype, Twitter and any other website that sparks your interest then turn around and apply it in the classroom! Learn and teach!
How often should I use it? Your time availability will depend on how many students you have. Use it once a day or once a week, just use it! The more you do the faster you will get and the more time you will have to learn new things with the technology.
I would like to set up a class webpage with safe links to permissable webpages. I will certainly use a class blog to display my students' works to the world. If I run into the issue of not knowing enough I will expand my PLN on Twitter and Blogger and I will attend professional developement classes. I will teach my students technology and they will teach me technology and we will show the world what we have learned!
I have provided links to the video interviews if you would care to view them yourself!
1st interview
2nd interview
3rd interview
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ReplyDeleteWe've found that the students regardless of their geographic situation can see themselves as world citizens. We'd love more feedback from our community for our students and are thinking about ways as a school next year we can encourage commenting from parents to their students blogs. It varies from community to community and there can be particular struggles if you consider that sometimes there is some perception that its not learning (which we've had here in New Zealand some of our parents have opted for more bookwork instead of working). Once your students and class pages becomes popular you also need to be vigilant, because you can get spam starting and that's something to keep an eye out for.
ReplyDeleteMr Webb and Room One, Auroa Primary School, Taranaki, New Zealand
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