Actually, the journey begins tomorrow, Monday, January 24. After attending the blog/wiki seminar for teachers at NJIT this past Saturday, I will being piloting a program for using several web tools, including blogs, wikis, and Google docs, into the curriculum of some (and eventually all) of the classes that I'm teaching at SBP this semester. Several SBP teachers also attended the seminar, and we had a chance to discuss how to implement some of these web tools into our classrooms.
My further incentive to learn about this has to do with my role as the main proponent of using blogs to improve the writing abilities of the students at SBP. As we learned more about blogs and wikis, several teachers and I began to realize the possibilities, and the challenges, of using blogs and wikis in our classrooms. One of my primary concerns is the apparent unwieldy nature of signing-up our rosters of students into the blogs and wikis that I, as the classroom teacher, would create for each class. To be included as a contributor into a wiki or a blog, a student must sign-up with the provider of the blog/wiki, which would be either blogger.com or wikispaces.com (during the seminar, we had a chance to investigate other providers, but these seemed like the most easy to use, and also the most popular). The current nature of the email system at SBP would cause a delay in the sign-up process, and I hope I've been able to find a work-around to that concern.
Here's my plan, and let's see if it works.
