Comments on: 21st Century, Students, Teachers, Schools http://safeonthenet.edublogs.org/2007/07/25/21st-century-students-teachers-schools/ Just another Edublogs.org weblog Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:58:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: dfoster http://safeonthenet.edublogs.org/2007/07/25/21st-century-students-teachers-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-8 dfoster Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:35:20 +0000 http://safeonthenet.edublogs.org/2007/07/25/21st-century-students-teachers-schools/#comment-8 Debbie, It is so telling that we all used David Warlick's article to start our discussions. He makes very important points that are invaluable to us all. You mentioned the fact that while we as a district are far ahead of a lot of schools around us, yet we are still far behind. I so agree with you here. Thankfully an important piece of Web 2.0 includes the Open Source materials. This can only help us in the long run with being able to begin this journey. While we will continue to need the infrastructure and hardware, the shared materials will be so important and a cost saver. I know we have a lot of work ahead of us, but I know we have a great start on it. We just need to stay focused and work together. Thanks for the great insights in this entry. Donna (PS What color pom poms would you like for your uniform? lol) Debbie,
It is so telling that we all used David Warlick’s article to start our discussions. He makes very important points that are invaluable to us all. You mentioned the fact that while we as a district are far ahead of a lot of schools around us, yet we are still far behind. I so agree with you here. Thankfully an important piece of Web 2.0 includes the Open Source materials. This can only help us in the long run with being able to begin this journey. While we will continue to need the infrastructure and hardware, the shared materials will be so important and a cost saver. I know we have a lot of work ahead of us, but I know we have a great start on it. We just need to stay focused and work together. Thanks for the great insights in this entry.
Donna

(PS What color pom poms would you like for your uniform? lol)

]]> By: msfubu http://safeonthenet.edublogs.org/2007/07/25/21st-century-students-teachers-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-6 msfubu Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:27:37 +0000 http://safeonthenet.edublogs.org/2007/07/25/21st-century-students-teachers-schools/#comment-6 Debbie, First of all let me compliment you on the look of your page... There have been a lot of updates since the last time I checked in. In what at first seems tangential, it's actually somewhat related that I don't have my own sites set up as efficiently. While my students' face pages and My Space pages are all "tricked out" I realize that I don't have the patience to spend so much time building my sites. This kind of relates to your point of being "ahead of the curve". In some ways we're on the cutting edge because we're doing this at all. In other ways I feel like I do when I'm two pages ahead of the kids. I appreciate your comment about faculty buy in as well. In my school, where teachers already feel like they put in many, many hours, getting everyone on board with this idea of blogging as part of the class would seem like yet one more thing. There are teachers who have websites, etc, but it's not all. The most valuable lesson of all for me is having an active blog. My summer reading blog and the accompanying e-mails is interesting. I already see what I will have to do differently next summer, and yet I can see that in some ways setting things up this way is better than receiving a bunch of book reports the first day of school. I will know in September what I will have to do when I have students set up their own blogs for journaling, and for setting the standards for things published on the class wiki site as well. I'm a little scared-- a 'lottle' scared is more like it. Your district is lucky that you will be encouraging administrators to support this *and* to support your teachers in doing this instead of simply putting them 'out there' to figure this "stuff" out on their own. --Ms. Fubu (aka Kimberly) Debbie,

First of all let me compliment you on the look of your page… There have been a lot of updates since the last time I checked in. In what at first seems tangential, it’s actually somewhat related that I don’t have my own sites set up as efficiently. While my students’ face pages and My Space pages are all “tricked out” I realize that I don’t have the patience to spend so much time building my sites. This kind of relates to your point of being “ahead of the curve”. In some ways we’re on the cutting edge because we’re doing this at all. In other ways I feel like I do when I’m two pages ahead of the kids.

I appreciate your comment about faculty buy in as well. In my school, where teachers already feel like they put in many, many hours, getting everyone on board with this idea of blogging as part of the class would seem like yet one more thing. There are teachers who have websites, etc, but it’s not all.

The most valuable lesson of all for me is having an active blog. My summer reading blog and the accompanying e-mails is interesting. I already see what I will have to do differently next summer, and yet I can see that in some ways setting things up this way is better than receiving a bunch of book reports the first day of school. I will know in September what I will have to do when I have students set up their own blogs for journaling, and for setting the standards for things published on the class wiki site as well. I’m a little scared– a ‘lottle’ scared is more like it. Your district is lucky that you will be encouraging administrators to support this *and* to support your teachers in doing this instead of simply putting them ‘out there’ to figure this “stuff” out on their own.

–Ms. Fubu (aka Kimberly)

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