Issues concerning Social Media and Web 2.0 tools was the big topic for this week. It made me think about my own digital footprint (which is relatively small) and how I can effectively teach my students how to be responsible digital citizens. How can I get them to understand such an abstract concept?
The stories you hear on the news about people's digital content effecting their jobs and life are all inappropriate to use as examples for ten year old!
We also started a Guild blog this week. I am a big fan of blogging so this was quite fun for me. Some of my guild mates were new to it and I truly feel like this experience helped them to discover a skill they didn't know they had! We used Wordpress for our blog - it is a nice platform but without paying for a subscripting it has some limited functionality. Since I teach CSS and HTML during the summer I would have loved to customize it a bit more.
Here is the link to our blog:
https://paladins.wordpress.com/
Another task this week was to compile a "bank" of Web 2.0 tools on our class Wiki. There are so many great tools out there. This list just reinforces the fact that there is not enough time in my day! I want to try all of these tools in my classroom.
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