Bud the Teacher

    I’m tickled to be invited to spend some time with the gang at Teachersteachingteachers.org tomorrow night.  Join in on the webcast via Skype Wednesday, 9pm EST.  Here’s what we/they/you will be tackling:

When setting up group blogs or wikis in schools, one of the first set of questions has to do with the focus of the blog or wiki.

• Is the site about the content of a particular course which a new group of students joins each semester?
• Or is the blog/wiki for the particular group of students in a class, and therefore it closes at the end of a class?

Other questions quickly follow:

• Is the blog/wiki going to be public or private? Will readers be
  limited to those who we register or will registration be open? Who will
  have permission to write responses or new posts to the blog/wiki? Will
  there be a review process before something gets posted?
• Would it be best if we could give students their own blogs/wikis, and aggregate these into one class-wide or school-wide blog?
• Or is there something more useful about having a group class-wide
  blog/wiki? How can we set up blogs/wikis that have multiple classes and
  schools using them, yet make it possible for individual students and
  classes to see their work separately?

By now some of us have tried any number of these possibilities.
Let’s get together and talk about what has gone well and what hasn’t in
designing blogs and wikis for our classrooms and schools. Let’s tell
our stories with an eye to the future of what we might do next year.

    Teachersteachingteachers.org is a project out of the Worldbridges Webcast Academy, which means it’ll be live and exciting.  I’m looking forward to the conversation.  I hope you’ll join us.