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February 2008

February 29, 2008

Teachers in the ESU 13 region have used Manila in the past to easily create web pages to support classroom instruction, and share information with parents. We have been searching for a Manila replacement for about a year, and selected the multi-user version of WordPress. During the last month numerous teachers have received training and begun creating content for their WordPress sites.

Here are the sites created by Gering and Kimball teachers;
Scott Plummer
Clint Schleicher
Julie Van Dyke
Mary Robinson
Randy Johnson
Kristy Keller
Russ Hamer

Mark Burson
Nancy Olsen
Ed Montgomery
Carolyn Montgomery
Laurie Janicek
Leta Liesch
Mark Wilson
Emily Brooks
Troy Unzicker
Kimball Library

Many of these sites are in the early stages of creation, and may not have much content at this time.

Keywords: parent, student, teacher, web

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March 23, 2008

I have had the opportunity to visit a number of our member schools and share an overview of many of the training sessions that have been my focus during the past two school years. Much of what I want to share with teachers are the possible benefits of a variety of web 2.0 tools that are being made available by ESU #13. In a previous post I spoke about the concepts of communication, collaboration, produce, publish and audience. These five concepts form a circular learning environment that could be seen as learning 2.0. Students would have the opportunity to use a variety of web 2.0 tools to communicate and collaborate with others that have common interests or are participating in similar learning activities. Once the communication and collaboration progresses, the opportunity to actually produce some type of output could arise. The use of web 2.0 tools makes the next steps really exciting. The product that has been created can be published, and the audience for the work is world wide. If an active community can be developed, the published work should lead directly back to starting new communication and collaboration.

Keywords: learning, teaching, web 2.0

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