Thing 21

I enjoyed exploring wiikis this morning over my cup of coffee. Again neat stuff out there. I really enjoyed the wikki that the Arbor Heights Elementary School created. To me it seemed like a great idea for parents to get info on the school. All the important upcoming dates were there, there were links to other sites, a place for comments and other interesting info. I could see creating a wikki for Driscoll school or even more specifically one just for First Grade at Driscoll. We could include info on how to complete our reading/writing homelinks. This project is often done incorrectly by parents. We could keep a list of suggested readings for the summer, extra ideas for math practice. Parents would be able to view and make comments about items that might be presenting a problem for them. Not sure who would manage the site, set it up and then be kind of in charge. Something else for the team leader? A separate job? But in this economy it wouldn't be an item listed on schedule C for sure. I think it does have great potential though. Just not sure how to handle it.

In school the other day Skip and I were talking about putting the reading plans that teachers have developed up on something like this. Then the paras or even teachers for that matter could look up the book they are doing for their reading group for the day. If they have another idea to add they could then do that or comment on what they found hard. Of course maybe this would be better then on goggle docs. Not sure.

We could make a summer reading list on a wikki for elementary children. I did look at some that were based on literature books. That would be neat but again who would manage that? Teachers, as you know are already very busy. All this technology is great but something else has to give in order to free up time for all this new learning. This still remains my number one concern with all this technology. Finding the time to do it all. Last night I spent my entire evening online doing podcasting, slideshare etc. As a result the dishes didn't get done and no laundry and no walk for me. I just hope all of this doesn't turn us all into people running to get on line. But then here I am at 6:15AM on a Sat. morning on line doing wikkis. Oh no maybe I have been bitten by the techi bug?

Maybe I should save all this for Thing 23 my reflection. Now it is time to create my own wikki. I think I started that last night by mistake. Look for me at springflowersinct I think that is my wikki.