Daily Dirge

Dirge the Dragon is named after the literary term of the same name.

He will help and guide us along our journy to become "lares of literacy. I know I will need help because the concept of literacy is so vast, yet I crave to learn more to help me become a better lare! I have chosen Dirge the Dragon because one of my favorite all time songs is "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Pauk and Mary.

I really got to see energent literacy for the first time when I was teacher preschool at Riverside Methodist Church Child Care Center. This center has a special place in my heart because my parents were married here in 1963. (almost 5o years ago). It is also special because my grandmother helped start the preschool program here in 1948.


Sunday, April 18, 2010

Chris O'Neil's web 2.0

This was very enlightening for me. I realize now that I am still using the old internet where it is just the site and me interacting! :):) With web 2.0 many people can inteact with a site or the internet. This is a great idea. I was not aware that flickr, YouTube and Wikipedia were of the web 2.0 variety. I am aware of all 3, but I have only used Wikipedia on a regular basis. I was in a school system and one of the teahcers was skeptical of wikipedia becaus of the fact anyone could add information and that he/she felt it was not a reliable source? I have always found that the information I have gotten has been accurate. I like the idea of my students creating a wiki and being able to add new information and that I can see the old and new version and keep track of their progress.

In the classroom wikipedia I would use as a research site, and that is east enough to understand. Chris said that a blog was 2.o and very interactive. He said it would be used for writing, discussion, editing, current events, etc. I think this is true, but because I have never had a blog and I am learning the thought of using a blog with my students right now scares me because I am not sure what I am doing!!!!!!! He mentioned that having a blog would creater higher levels of discusssion! WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell me how the computer blog can do this. On a human level some people hate to write, think, type wheter on paper, in class or on a blog. Help me understand this connection.

I think it would be beneficial for me to use a blog as a teacher because if for nothing else it would cut down on lugging home paperwork!!!!!!!!!:):):)

DELICIOUS.COM this is a great idea of bookmarking sites on the web. A class can accumulate quite a collection and have different categories depending on what they are studying. It could alsmost be a weekly activity. Let's say every monday is bookmark day and each student has to find a site to book mark, and talk about it to the class and how it relates to the current topic! I am learning so much!

I hope I can learn and understand all of this so I can better serve my students.
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