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I think there still is a place for facts however, I dont think students need to know anything, I want them to learn depth. As I was taught very early on, students need a certain amount of content if not you are sorting an empty drawer, they need to be given content first before manipulating it with technology.
My students don’t come to their portfolio meetings, so wouldn’t it be great to
be able to have students make a recording of their reading fluency at the
beginning of the year and then rerecord during the third marking period. It
would also be nice to scan in student work and have them record their portfolio
presentation, so they have a larger say in how their conference is
organized.
evaluation is the highest level of bloom's taxonomy, and it would be great for the students to be able to do a podcast of their reflections on their portfolio.
One of the things the wiki allows is two-way communication. I wonder how you might use a wiki with parents as two-way communication. Would there be ways they could provide feedback, ideas, etc. - a way for THEM to engage with the information rather than just consume it. After all, that is what the web is all about these days - two way communication - consuming and creating information.
The wiki allows people to collaborate from a multitude of locations.
There are definitely down sides to the Kindle - no color and no touch screen. The Nook changes that. Ironically, I was investigating the Nook earlier today and will likely get one for school to try it out.
I'm more of a numbers guy, not a words guy (which is why I'm a math teacher). However this seems like a pretty amazing tool. Can you get magazines on it or just books?
I think you would just create a new one. It will be easy to copy/paste the content you have now....except files that you uploaded. You would need to do that all over again.
"During the last six or so years I have created a number of 'how-to' documents and presentations for a variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from the various workshop web pages however I thought it might prove helpful to link to all the documents from a single page. Some of my workshop participants have referred to these documents as 'cheat sheets'."