This week in class was rather interesting. The last thing we did on Thursday was work on the group Wikis. This has left me excited as I am looking forward to collaborating with other future Elementary School teachers. I also see how this will be helpful if you are assigned the task of keeping up with a school webpage. It is valuable information that can be used for many reasons. I am actually planning on taking this Wiki publishing practice and applying it to the Swim Club here at UT. It will be easy to keep everything up-to-date and it will allow the Exec Board to inform new swimmers about the team and the things we do from practice, volunteering, and social events. I think one of the other things I enjoy about the Wiki is that you can save and go. This blog is like that as well and it makes writing so much easier because you can stop what you are doing and attend to something else and then you can return and you won't have lost your place. That is a great feature to have access to when you have other obligations i.e. work, kids, dogs, etc.
All in all, I really enjoyed the week and although I felt we went at a slow pace, it was an informative one and I am looking forward to next week's lessons.
Patrick,
ReplyDeleteKeep us posted on your idea to organize acquatics content through a wiki. I hope you get the greenlight to do this -- what an exciting real-world application. I would love to share this in class!
Think, also, about how exciting it would be to put the power of online publishing in the hands of your students. With parent permission and some solid instruction on what to share and NOT share online, children can publish all kinds of artifacts using the wiki and blog tools, including artwork, stories, poems, book reports, and more. And you can manage the settings so nothing is published without the administrator's (you) approval.
Great Idea Patrick! You should make a wiki for AJCC lol.
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