Well... this class is giving me a renewed interest in trying this with my students. Because I teach ELL, I have smaller numbers.... so it may make it easier to get into the computer lab, or let my students use my computer on a rotating basis to do things online. The problem comes if I want to get them all on at the same time to do something. I introduced them to TweenTribune.com at the beginning of the year with hopes of doing more with it... but unfortunately, it's so difficult to get computer time.
The articles I've been reading for class gave me a few ideas on how to make it work as well. I have a few students who really don't care how poor their writing is... but if I can get the principal or the vice-principal on a class blog site or forum, I think that would help. Even if they don't really ever look at it, just knowing that they're members might encourage them to write.
I also found another site recently called pixton.com which is for making online comic strips and is all drag and drop.
Which reminds me, I keep meaning to make a google doc with my non-school account for all of the links that we all use. I think it would be great to get all of my classmates to post the links that they've actually used for something so with some comments instead of finding what we thing is a great site, bookmarking it and then forgetting it. Plus,when this class is over, I (and anyone else) who used a different account to link to it will be able to access it.
My mind is on the holiday... so that may explain why I'm all over in this post.
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Shawn-
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem at my school. I can't get all my students on a computer at the same time. Our lab only has 25 computers and most classes are larger than that. It really stinks! Also, our computers are not the greatest. We did recently get a smartboard in there though. That was exciting. Sometimes I feel like I do what I can with what I have. What more can you do.