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I just completed our staff meeting for the week. The staff is tired today. They try so hard. I continue to believe that teaching is not that hard of a job if you don't care.
On to the wiki. I am so new to this, but the concept is that people provide "threads" which is like comments/chats. We can include profiles, videos, photos. I am looking to create chapters or areas in this wiki. One area or thread on Differentiated Instruction, one on Technology in the Classroom, one on Literacy Strategies, and one on Assessment. So my theory is that when teachers try things that they add to the wiki in the appropriate chapter/thread heading. When a website is used, the teachers can add that in the bookmark area.
Now, how do I get teachers to visit? How do I get teachers to look to see what others have done. I will have to learn about how folks are alerted to the fact that the wiki has been updated. I think that if people have to go to the site that they might not do it. If they are alerted via an email that has a ready link, then they might. People are trained to look at email and they will read it, but to proactively and thoughtfully go to a website - well.
Andy
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We have the Spanish teacher who has just set up a wiki with the Spanish teacher on leave in Argentina.They are sharing a wiki and will be sharing cultural information. Students are very excited about the whole idea and so is the teacher. Another teacher is doing the same thing but for English. Our tech coach has thought a wiki would be a good idea for what I am looking for in online portfolios but I am not sure. I think I have found something different. The thing is regarding your wiki idea is this...I am not sure you will have positive results. As a teacher I would look at it as one more thing to do. If you send out email with some sites to check out that might work. Or better yet have teachers share at inservices and teacher meetings. One of the best things our school did last year was to have a 'tech camp' for teachers. Just before school (about two/three wks) they had a three day camp. Teachers could choose an area to learn about the session were led by teacher in the district who were already 'doing' things. We learned about it in the morning. Had lunch (provided by the district) and then in the afternoon came up with a lesson plan that I we could incorporate what we learned into it. So when school started I already had several things I could do. Go me motivated and excited to try it. We also got floating inservice and or curriculum pay for coming. There were prizes to win and a large prize at the end. Great motivation for us and that has spread throughout the buildings. I could put you in touch with the coach if you are interested if you don't know her already.
ReplyDeleteWiki from Tech camp. In case you are interested.
ReplyDeletehttp://mishicotweb20.pbworks.com/
Andy,
ReplyDeleteI really like the 4 "thread" topics you have selected. Differentiated Instruction, Technology in the Classroom, Literacy Strategies, and Assessment are all important district initiatives we are working on. I have to agree with you, though, that it will be a challenge to get teachers to post to it. It's so hard to just get teachers to share ideas with each other. They always tend to think they're not doing anything special. One side benefit of our RtI work has been the sharing of ideas & strategies during our SST meetings. Diane