1. Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
2. Continue with optional wiki collaboration with class.
3. Continue planning with Google Calendar, update personal blog with reflection about working with Google Calendar.
Following Twitter has been a learning experience for me. I am still finding a lot of tweets that are basic status updates or tweets back and forth as they follow each other. As I read tweets and do some simple searching around I do find articles that are interesting, but I have yet to really use it as a learning community network. I did find this article very interesting, the discussion topic is digital native vs. digital immigrants, by Dan Pontefract (@dpontefract)
The Fallacy of Digital Natives
This week I have used the class wiki in order for students to start learning and collaborating about character traits. It has been a learning process for the students and myself. I have set up the class into 4 different teams using the project option. I spent 20 minutes of class time having the students log onto the wiki and then making sure that they were each assigned to a team, some students could not remember their password or their account name. While getting everything organized the students were very involved with helping each other log onto the wiki and showing each other what to do. We then discussed exactly what a wiki is and the difference between a blog and a wiki. Throughout the week we worked on the wiki a couple of times. Students understand how to use the wiki, now we need to work on improving the content.
Setting up the Teams
Wiki Collaboration
I am continuing with Google Calendar. I enjoy the color-coding and the fact that I can just leave it open on my computer all day so that I can see my entire week plan. I realized that I needed to turn off the pop-up emails. I do find it tedious because I must change the time for every class.
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