Summercore

Thoughts on Blogs and Wikis

lmadrid — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:10:35 +0000

I’m considering using a blog in Math 6 to post my daily class summary and the homework assignments. I currently use FirstClass folders for this purpose but I’m wondering if a blog is a better tool for pushing out this information to students daily. I currently accomplish this with a lot of small word files. Any thoughts?

I’m also excited about exploring the use of Wiki’s for the Math 6 iPods (Interesting Problem of the Day). Students working in small groups could produce their solutions to the iPod, similar to the way we all produced the answers to the 33 questions. Students would practice articulating their solutions and would gain valuable insight from seeing the different ways to solve a problem. Since the problems are called iPods, the wiki could be called a “WikiPodia”. What do you think?

HW 2 – Chapter 14

lmadrid — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:54:13 +0000

This chapter is about Blogs and Wikis. It explains the differences between the two and gives examples as well as suggestions for how to use them in the classroom.

lmadrid — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:20:47 +0000

Reading HW Day 1

lmadrid — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:36:14 +0000

The most useful readings were the ones about how to integrate technology in the classroom. One of them included links to math animation tools that I will definitely use. Other readings had some useful terminology review and information about laptop schools.

Math Manipulatives