Friday, February 12, 2010

Take a Look - The Reading Workshop BLOG

EDU 305 Students take a look at the BLOG: The Reading Workshop - Specifically scroll down and look at the post of Jan. 21st entitled Student BLOG Rubric - - Could the suggested rubric be adapted for our class?

Also take a look at student BLOGs that earned a 4 out of 4:
For examples of students' blogs that earned a 4, check out these sites:
Hannah's Hideout
Hadley's Planet
Ian's Corner
Bethanie's Word
Hannah's Hangout
Katey's Corner
Kaitlyn's Cave

Friday, January 29, 2010

What do teachers need to know about Computer and Technology Assisted Instruction?

Work in your groups to finish the list begun below of skills, knowledge, and dispositions that teachers need to effective use computers and technology in their classrooms?


  • Dispositions
An understanding of how technology is changing the world

  • Knowledge
What is Web 2.0 and why is it important to teaching and learning

  • Skills
How to construct a BLOG for classroom instruction
How to construct a BLOG for classroom communication with students and parents

How to digitize media for use on the Web: audio - pictures - video

How to construct a Wiki for classroom instruction

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Post Your First Response

  • What is a Blog?
  • What are the pedagogical implications of student driven BLOGS in contrasting to a teacher-created website?
  • What are the child-protection, copyright, and social issues that are involved?