After three sessions, I already have a TON to think about. The Shakespeare session used Hamlet as a model, so I have an incredible amount of tools for teaching it this year. I'm considering creating a wikispace that utilizes reciprocal teaching toolds-- each student would have a specific role to fulfill while reading. My second session dealt a bit with Web 2.0- ironically, it meshed perfectly with the the previous session and gave me the idea for the wikispace. Unfortunately, they gave little in terms of what to do if this information is blocked. Facebook and Myspace could be great tools for instruction (create a site for Frankenstein's monster-- do as if he is trying to get a date), but those tools are blocked. This session discussed the idea of the "milennial student" and discussed how students expect to be able to be social and technological in their classroom experience. So, shouldn't we respond to their needs?
The other session was about the one-to-one laptop classroom. This information is incredible- they talked specifically about blogging and being multimodal in the classroom. We discussed the skills and traits of successful blogs and, as a whole group, created a list of how to assess blogs, targeting specific skills that we need to target as teachers. Check out this site: http://ncte2008.ning.com/forum/topics/writing-in-the-onetoone-laptop
They also have a google docs page where we are currently working on this information.
This is awesome!
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