Once again, the digital stories created by 505 students were fabulous. Each story told a personal story and illustrated the power of digital story telling in connecting personal life to school life. Winners in our light-hearted digital story competition were Sally, Todd and Haley. Most important, the sharing of digital stories contributed to the growth of our community of technology using educators as we each got to know each other a little better.
Our resource reviews covered GeoGebra and Wall Wisher. It is interesting to note that we used to call these reviews “Software Reviews”, but as Evrim pointed out in class, the word software is almost history now. Almost all our resource reviews now use free, web-based applications. This is definitely good news for schools.
We began our journey into using wikis in classrooms and groups were formed to begin work on the collaborative assignment. Each group met briefly and agreed upon a topic and grade level for their project. Lindsay’s group will be creating an activity for Lindsay’s 4th graders.
We will go online next week (Feb. 28) as we read about TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) and describe how some skilled teachers are demonstrating their TPACK.
We look forward to your feedback and suggestions for our blended format, You may include suggestions in blog comments and in our midterm evaluation next week.
I really enjoyed seeing everyone else's digital stories and it made me feel better knowing that I wasn't the only one that struggled. Everyone's were so different! The group I am in for my Wiki site seems to work together extremely well and I am excited to see how our site and the rest of the class's turn out.
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