Wikis

Wikis allow us to collect information and share it with others. We'll take a look at how teachers can use this rich resource to enhance existing lessons, and to find new resources and techniques for presenting information.
Your lessons were great. I hope all of you are planning to use the lesson that you created sometime soon. It always interests me to see the variety of subjects, and the variation in presentation for different age students. This time our lessons range from 2nd grade level to adults, from a lesson on bats to advanced math.
If you have pre-school children at home or little ones in your family, take a look at the preschool/primary site list on my home page (theteachersnet.org). If you only have time to examine one, check out Ziggity Zoom. Have a restful week-end -you deserve it. Mary

The New Web

The next class is my favorite. We'll take a look at Web 2.0 applications, and some ways in which teachers are using them. Blogs, RSS aggregators, and wikis are some of the new tools that are enabling us to communicate, organize, share and access information in ways that were not possible even a few years ago.
Kathy, Gloria, and Theresa, thanks for your blog comments. Everyone else still needs to submit a comment. Remember to sign your first name to the post, and send it as Anonymous.
I hope your lessons went together quickly and easily. I look forward to seeing them.

Glad You're Here

Technology and the Internet have become an integral part of our lives. For many kids and teens, though, it's the way they live. They use it to communicate, to socialize, to learn, and, it changes how they see the world. This course will provide you with some time to explore the 'Net and the ways in which can enhance learning. I hope that you'll be able to find sites to use in your teaching, to identify resources, to understand both the "Net's potential and challenges, and to realize that, because of technology, the future will be different. I am very glad that you're joining us. Have fun exploring. Mary