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Let's roll out the school buses and improve vocabulary!

Create your own "twitter wall" to project a back channel for your next PD session or event.   This site makes it easy to follow the conversation on twitter around a hashtag of your choice.   The Video-Twitterwall is also interesting, allowing one to embed a video from Youtube or another video service into your twitterwall

You've tried using online discussion with  your students in Haiku (or elsewhere), but you are having trouble getting students to say something substantial.  These tips should help drive a deeper conversation at the common "core" of the issue or topic.

One of the most powerful uses of an LMS like Haiku is the ability to easily conduct online discussions with your students.   This article provides excellent tips for establishing "norms" for online discussion to establish and maintain a safe space for conversation online.

This article contrasts question types that foster conversations with those that kill conversation.   Although these tips are directed toward facilitating successful online discussion, they can be applied equally to in-person dicussions in class.  Take a look!

This article provides a nice list of strategies and sentence starters to help students continue the conversation in an online discussion.

This article outlines different ways journaling can be useful in elementary science classes.

Why not use Haiku for students to keep their journals? Discussions or Wikiprojects in Haiku could be used for this. In fact, the Bridge Building teams at Tupelo Middle School are using Wikiprojects to keep their journals, collect their data, and compose their portfolios for competition.

Good point. Wiki/discussion boards are great for students to converse back and forth and work collaboratively in groups, but there are a few advantages to the old fashioned type journal as well. Drawings as well as charts and graphs for science are sometimes more beneficial to student learning and expression when done on paper and pencil. Ultimately, you would want to have both. It is also important to note that with the software we have available on the Macs, you could use the Photo Booth to capture drawings and graph and upload them to Haiku/Wiki or wherever you were sharing/storing them electronically.