I have been concerned lately while inviting students to create digital projects about how to help educate them about copyright and giving credit to their sources. I LOVE the wiki of copyright friendly sites! It is a great source to use when helping students use and create mulitmedia. We need to make sure we encourage students to use information responsibly.
I also loved seeing all the things posted by Mrs. Abernathy's Fifth graders. It seems like her class must be self-contained, and she keeps them very involved in uploading and creating items to use in their blog and wiki. What a great melding of technology with the learning that is obviously taking place. I love all her resources and links, too. I will go back there to use some of the websites as we study historical eras during the year.
I have started a wiki, and have attempted to use it for posting reading responses. It was difficult for me to manage or know how much to REQUIRE or leave as an OPTION. I think I will try again this year to have this as a place for both sections of my class to post and extend their book discussions.
There are some good ideas here for using the tools in the classroom. I'll definitely be checking out your blog on often.
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