wiki

I find the wiki to be easier than the google site. I created my wiki of my portfolio for my grad. I liked that I could go back and forth and add or delete items. I keep kicking myself for my online group project for class would have been so much easier to create a page and add information. Group projects online are difficult enough and the wiki would make it easier.
Using them in the classroom, would be great for a research project. Each question could be a different link. The site is easy to edit and the students could learn editing from something that is placed online. The students could reflect with a journal set up as a wiki for a project. Students could reflect on a what they know. It may be an excellent formative assessment tool leading up to the summative.

google sites 2

I was very proud of myself and wanted to make my website better only to find that the link does not work. My density project was going to provide students with a site to visit and learn responsibility to not lose the directions. I have dreams of making all my projects websites.
I should have done it through my spsd good account. I am not sure why the page will not publish. I really hope I do not have to start over. over the summer, I finished my portfolio class and tried playing with google sites. No luck.......I went with a wiki. I feel as though google sites and I are not meant to be. I can add pics and change fonts, but getting the public to see it is a problem.
I can appreciate how much easier google sites will make my life at the beginning of the year. No more photo copying letters to parents and supply lists. Parents can click on a link for appropriate materials.
I will keep at it, but my tech person and myself are baffled. Not sure when google sites and I will get back together.

Google Sites

I have started my website for google sites. I was thinking of doing this site for years and now I have been given the perfect opportunity. I have added all the content on the pages, but pics/presentation could use some help.
My site is about a project that I spend a lot of time photocopying. For organizational purposes, the site gives students a responsibility.
I find that there are other site builders that are easier, but I am willing to try this to see how it works. I do feel I need more of a one on one when it comes to building the sites. I was able to navigate through the page, but I am not sure if I did it right.
I look forward to learning more to put the site to work.

Google Docs

Google Docs are going to be the future of education. They are free and "green" in the sense of the environment. The money that could be saved using google docs might change a lot of the budget.
I appreciated what a fellow colleague had to offer to the class. I was interested to see how someone would use and was in use. There are so many uses. The example shown offered excellent daily use of the laptops and places more responsibility on the students. Papers do not go missing on google docs.

I would plan to use google docs for spreadsheets and data collection of experiments. We could look at many other students' data from other places. We could continuously track data of all experiments and note trends for classes. Using data from other schools would offer a bigger picture for my students. Organizationally, this may be the answer many students are looking for.

Delicious

I am excited about delicious as a social bookmarking tool. It takes the sting out of having the laptops reimaged. Looking for a topic that others have searched and found sites worth bookmarking takes the reinvention of the wheel out of a search. This will save a lot of time in creating information worth seeking for students.
In my classes, the students can use the site and complete their own search that shows sites worth investing time in. I am thinking for my density projects (which will be this week) that students will complete delicious searches for their own websites. I think this would be a great way to introduce the site as well as offer autonomy to gather the information that are responsible for. Just playing with the site, I was able to find information about how density relates to the Titanic. I teach this concept as well as offer it as a possible project surrounding essential questions. I can also bookmark sites I found for those struggling, although I am interested in students completing their own to determine relevance they invested.