Tech Camp
My first summer tech camp and I couldn’t have been happier with the teachers and admin help we received at Franklinville the past 3 days. Day 1 was showing projector integration resources and help. Our wiki was just something I threw together quick in the afternoon to give them links. One thing I would’ve liked to have shown them was the new stacking feature with Searchme, but I never got to it.
Day 2 was work with wikis, however, only one teacher showed up, so we looked at blogs and some settings on her SchoolWires blog. With wikis we looked at Wikipedia, I explained how it’s like a whiteboard in the classroom that you can add or erase anything you’d like. Then, she got started on a Wikispaces one for her fellow teachers at her grade level to post and share resources.
Day 3 was a work day where we helped about 9 teachers with whatever they wanted. I ‘tried’ to help with the CPS unit, but mostly helped again with their SchoolWires accounts and School Island which I used quite a bit as a high school math teacher.
Great week, thanks to Franklinville and the admin for all of their help and support this week, I hope to do it again next year.
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:50 am
Sounded like a great way to provide professional development. Thanks for the post.
BTW, I just checked my wikispaces widget on my blog, and there are more than 90,000 educator wikis now. They have almost reached their 100,000 free wikispaces w/o ads educator accounts. I have to tell my friends not to wait.