Friday, 13 Febraury 2009 was probably about the most productive day I've ever had at school while not actually teaching. The 7th grade humanities team spent the entire school day working on a big new unit that we plan on doing later this school year. We are using a model we'd learned about in this first course (of the 6 teachers on the "Hum 7" team, four are taking the class) based on Laurence's "remote access" link.
As the "big picture" became clearer to all of us, I think the more into it we got. Also, for me, it really solidified the intended differences between blogging and wikiing (like skiing...two "i"s, right?) Though of course users can do whatever they may like with either "platform" but I did have the clear "aha" that a blog is a journaling thing with the possibility of back and for as a main intent and the wiki is where several people are working together to create one thing and depending how it's set up anybody can edit anything. There is of course complete cross over between the two formats depending on how it's set up and what access or editing rights people have.
We've also set up several google docs and all of us really saw the potential of a shared document like that (sort of the idea of a wiki but a little bit more controlled and all of us can be looking at it at the same time and if somebody else makes a change it will appear on my screen which is pretty cool.)
Does anybody else think the whole act of blogging is basicaly to feed your ego?
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