1. Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
2. Start optional wiki collaboration with class.
3. Start setting up Google Calendar.
My first task this week was to follow Twitter, find an article that was tweeted, and post it to my blog. As I navigate through Twitter I continually find the amount of tweets overwhelming and I am only following 17 peoples’ tweets! I am still learning about hash marks and finding relevant tweeters to follow. I will have to do more playing with Twitter in order to achieve my goal of making it into my professional learning network. However, the goal was to post an article that was tweeted, so I chose Blogs and Blogging Ideas started by Buffy Hamilton (@buffyjhamilton). It is a long list of ideas that we, as teachers, can use on our own classroom blogs.
Blogs and Blogging Ideas
The Wiki collaboration has not started with my class yet. We are starting a new chapter book in reading class and I will be having the students collaborate on their thinking using the book Stone Fox. I hope that this week I will have some students ready and willing to do some collaboration on this project. You can check out the class wiki with the link below. There is an example of a student's voki, something we did get done this week!
3B Wiki
I have set up Google calendar for this upcoming week. I do like the convenience of being able to access the calendar anywhere with an Internet connection. One of the issues that I have with the calendar and with my school is that the school works on a 6-day cycle and the calendar goes days. Because of the 6-day cycle the days of the week are never the same, which means that I have to continually add all the specialist classes over and over again, this can make for a lot more work. Today I worked on the calendar for almost an hour changing the times, colors, etc. I will keep working on the calendar and was thinking that maybe I just need to add my classes to the calendar and not the classes that I am not teaching.
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