I think I won one over
October 31, 2007
I have been preaching a little about how wonderful podcasts and blogging tools really engage students and increase learning. One of my social studies teachers has decided to create a class blog, and another one has confessed today that he is totally addicted to podcasts. I love the title of his blog, aptly named “The Kneighborhood of Knowledge.” How clever is that?? His blog also has a page called podcasts, which tells me he is interested in exploring the concept of podcasting for his class! WOOT! Before today, I had only managed to convince library colleagues (from various other schools) to jump in, but I can now say I have fellow teaching colleagues joining me in the web 2.0 ocean. Please encourage them by visiting the one blog (I predict the other will be blogging before long) and leaving him a nice compliment or message of encouragement. Both are EXCELLENT teachers who have the greatest of potential. All of the sudden all the kids think these two already cool teachers are even more cool!!
P.S. (I haven’t done that since middle school myself!) Both of these teachers have been listening to and viewing K12Online Conference material. Since this is about my school, I will call this an SYP!
October 31st, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Cathy,
I’m always happy to visit new bloggers, since blogging give me such joy.
WHAT does “Woot” mean?!!!
diane
October 31st, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Cathy,
Thanks for the shout out. I was wondering why I had a few more comments on my page. Can’t wait to add more stuff and tell more people. By the way…who’s interested in podcasts?
November 1st, 2007 at 6:19 am
mrgranito,
Always happy to extend my circle of virtual friends!
I haven’t done any podcasts yet but hope to get my students interested and involved. Right now they’re stuck in the PowerPoint groove.
Good luck with your blogging.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Great job to win one over. Keep up the good work. I’m still working on my faculty, but we’re 2/3 of the way there.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Visited a few minutes ago. I plan to share his blog with some of my 7th SS teachers. Like you, am trying to encourage others in the building.
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Hey Cathy thanks for leaving a comment on my new blog http://www.lietze.edublogs.org.
I have since been onto http://mrgranito.edublogs.org and can see that this teacher has recognised the value of a blog. Look out for the red dot on his cluster map from little NZ!