Joy..Michelle....Absolutly! My 1st/2nd graders LOVE the classroom blog (multiageclassroom.blogspot.com). It's been quiet this summer, but in the schoolyear (I started it at the end of January) we did all types of things. The BEST was being able to TALK to schools around the WORLD! This year, in addition, to the blog, we will have a classroom wiki for information, as well as a place to record their work (reading log, homefun, etc.) I'm working on that now so it's ready for them in August. BOTH of these are SAFE for kids, as long as you put in the proper safeguards. On teacher tube, you can watch a video I made about teaching math in a multiage classroom. http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=79d9a008be459fe0ffe3 Putting our comprehension lessons on a wiki or a blog or teacher tube, is reaching the world, and all are easy to do. The teacher tube video was just a digital camera, photostory 3 (a free download from Microsoft) and a computer. I would love to see us move up to the 21st century. Active Literacy, (the reasons we teach comprehension!) means we want the kids to be able to do something with what they have learned....and I don't mean a diorama! But, as teachers, we need to step it up a bit ourselves in technology. Someone on this list or another one I'm on, mentioned portaportal. What a GREAT resource that is. (go to portaportal.com and set up your own...easy! My guest access login is libertyschool for my list for my students and parents...and soswes for my ownstuff. Feel free to browse) Even something simple as that for ALL the links we have. A wiki where we can post lessons or videos or both (that has security issues as I wouldn't want that to be public access, but I'm sure there is a way to do that) or more! If we all had del.icio.us accounts (also free!) we could even do a lot. Joy...I WILL add you to my network...my id is soswes. Let's step it up, everyone! I would be glad to be part of something that started this up! Sandi 1st/2nd Elgin U-46 IL _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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