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“Sit and Get” vs “Collaborative” Meeting
I just sat through another meeting, a meeting of “sit and get,” I thought being in the 21st century we would move to “collaborate,” but apparently not. My guess is the person in charge taught the “sit and get,” method and doesn’t know how to conduct a class of collaboration. It takes more work, more [...]
Why YOU Should Social Network!
This is a true story, you never know who or what you are going to learn or participate in, just jump in… As you know the fifth graders are collaborating with another school downstate in Illinois in the Collaborative Composer Project. My girlfriend set up a voicethread for us to collaborate. My students took to [...]
Lincoln’s 200th Birthday Collaboration
I am really excited about the new project that Sunset Ridge fifth graders are starting concerning the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. My PLN comes through again! I noticed a plurk that a technology director was looking for a fifth grade class to collaborate using voicethread. I didn’t really have this project in mind, but [...]
Gone Wiki
I can’t tell you how excited I was that pbwiki upgraded with a feature that students can collaborate WITHOUT an email address. Hence, http://srsmusic.pbwiki.com was created. I immediately wanted to set up accounts for all my students in my music classes. Here is the big decision: should I create the accounts and tell the students [...]