It's funny. The term blog used to be only really set aside for a small group of people who had a voice and somewhat important words to say. Now as I look around the blogosphere I'm surprised at how many people have jumped on this medium. I've always been a reader but I always felt that I didn't have anything really all that interesting to say. Somewhere my voice came around...now I blog with some regularity anyway. I will eventually get back into Podcasting. I was into it awhile back but suddenly just lost interest. I think it's a matter of time. Now that I'm in a district, I'll probably get back into it...of course in combination with my blog!
I digress...my original point to this is to ponder how many of use are utilizing wikis. How many of you author, contribute, or read wikis? Since coming to this district, I've been pushing the use wikis. They are great tools for kids...think of it as an outlet for a collaborative research "paper" or just an all together different way of students producing. Ah, production. I just finised doing an academy for innovative instruction and two of the things that I highlighted were data to drive change in instruction and differentiated instruction. Actually, can you see how they tie together? Again...I digress. So I prepared presentations, materials, ideas, and gathered tons of resources all with a focus on technology to enhance this process...what did I end up? A ton of stuff. I wasn't really sure what to do with all of it. I spoke to ways that you could use a wiki and it dawned on me...why don't I practice what I preach? So I created a wiki to highlight differentiated instruction and technology's influence on it. I'll be obviously expanding this thing but it's really in it's infancy. Please feel free to check it out!
Have a great evening everyone!
Steve
Keywords: blogging, collaboration, instructional technology, literacty, student projects, wiki, wikipedia