We have a wiki!
July 13, 2008 — Vanessa RileyI signed up for a wiki. It isn’t much now, because I plan on having the students maintain it.
I haven’t been up to school all last week, so I think I’ll pop in tomorrow just to check in and see if the mics have come in yet. and to do a little school work. I want to see how the RSS feed is going to work with our LMS system.
The students come back to school on August 25th. I’d like to have some podcasts ready for them. Start out with something small, something interesting. After listening to sample podcasts that are out there, I don’t want anything boring. I listened to one classroom podcast that ended up being students recording themselves reading a paper. While I can see the educational benefit in that (I use PVC pipes that I turned into WhisperPhones), it was very tedious to listen to. I think this will ultimately makes my students better writers because they will be forced to write interesting leads and trim unnecessary detail.
I had never really thought about the timing of the grant, but I am glad that I applied in the spring rather than in the fall for this sort of project. I have time in the summer before school starts to learn and prepare. I learned a lot writing this grant, and I think that I will take application date into consideration when I write my next grant.
