My initial ideas-Students working in colloborative groups on capstone projects.  Students teaching others, taking responsibility for their own learning. Students can add text, links, videos, inspiration webs.  To teach everything from math concepts, book study guides, science terms, social studies concepts, timelines.  I can definitely see now how useful wikis can be in the classroom.  [...]

I am still getting used to reading/skimming my articles in my Google Reader.  It’s a little overwhelming at first to see all of those feeds and think I have to read all of them.  But, I’m doing a little better at skimming the short summaries to determine whether I want to read more.  My favorite [...]

I found a great article from Infinite Thinking Machine about a 5th grade classroom at the Sahuarita Intermediate School in the Southwestern U.S.  All of the students were actively engaged in activities that encouraged them to take charge of their learning.  Here is the Infinite Thinking Machine blog post. http://www.infinitethinking.org/2009/03/friday-five-from-wee-web-wonders.html
This is the teacher’s page flake site. http://www.pageflakes.com/jgerst1111/
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Blogs can cover a wide variety of genres, everything from original compositions to personal views and opinions.  Blog reading is really no different from other types of reading because it encompasses all different types of genre.  The only difference is that is available to everyone who has Internet access and who the writer has given permission [...]

 My initial thoughts about Web 2.0 is that it can be a great information source for our students and for ourselves, providing we can teach them how to verify the reliability of their sources.  One of my concerns is “Web etiquette” or is this just a place for people to talk about themselves and their personal [...]