12 | March | 2006 | Bud the Teacher

Just spend a crazy couple of hour writing/drafting/talking/developing the seed of some curricular tools and resources over at the EdTechTalk Barnraising. I think the core of curriculum is developing, but it will take a significant amount of time and resources over the new few weeks and months to flesh out and create a useful resource for teachers. We’ve all been creating our own tools and webpages to help us to share knowledge and help other teachers to use Web 2.0 as a classroom device. It’ll be nice to create a central place to develop and share all of our work.
I hope that’s what the EdTechTalk wiki will become. But it’ll be up to all of us to make sure that what we’ve created becomes more than a collection of neglected wiki pages.
Here are a couple of things that I’m thinking about as my brain is in super-connective thinking mode.

The wiki at EdTechTalk could become one stop shopping for anyone getting started and for those looking to further integrate Web 2.0 in the classroom.
Lots of really smart people have lots of great ideas spread all over the Internet. How do we centralize that so as to be efficient and not recreating the wheel all of the time?
How do we get stakeholders invested in using a central place for all of our resources? (I don’t mean that everyone should only use one place to write or share, but I do think we could be lots more efficient and effective if we can begin to at least link back to one or two central resources, as well as link ourselves to a few key places.)
What are the essential resources/pages/ideas/people that should be linked in to the EdTechTalk wiki? Who will make the effort to make sure these links get created?
What am I overlooking/missing through the haze of my excitement?
How does centralization like I’m attempting to describe hurt/harm/conflict with the idea of Small Pieces Loosely Joined?
How can we use the category features of MediaWiki to create a resource that contains multiple ways of organizing and accessing information?
Can we pay people to develop some of these ideas further? Where would the money come from? Would people want to get paid to develop wiki materials that might and probably will be changed over time?