Time Flies...

Beginning to realize that unless I share this blog and let others generate content, that it will become one ball that gets dropped when things get chaotic as they are right now. Thanksgiving was great and everything at school is pretty much business as usual.

Anyway....the faculty reception of the wiki for the book study was mixed, as I had expected that it would be. But for the most part, once everyone realized that the wiki behaves pretty much like a word processor, everyone was pretty cool with it. An added bonus, was that one of the team members that presented the first session this past Monday (11/26), absolutely loved the wiki. In just a few editing sessions, she uploaded all the files she used into the wiki, and delivered her group's presentation via the wiki. Later, I posted her group's "homework" onto the wiki, and during this past week, the faculty have posted their homework by editing that wiki page. Our principal was extremely pleased when I informed her on Thursday (11/29), that not only had everyone completed his or her homework, but that they had also completed it, digitally, either via wiki or via email that was then pasted into the wiki.

I am currently scouting faculty members who want to experiment with letting students build a wiki as a research product and in the meantime I am trying to think of other practical products that I could use wikis for.

Getting My Mind Around It All

Up on this Saturday morning experimenting with technologies that I have been hearing about lately. Attended the NCSLMA(N.C. School Library Media Association) conference in Winston-Salem, N.C. (11-15+16) and wanted to tinker with the open source programs mentioned and/or used by several presenters.
I am especially intrigued by educational applications of social networks like SecondLife, but wonder if I will have time to complete Orientation Island in time to attend an event that I learned about on Twitter this morning.