1. S T E P H E N S H U T T L E W O R T H F E B R UA R Y 2 0 1 5
WIKIS, BLOGS AND WEB
PUBLISHING
2. CREATING A WIKI
• First Reactions: Where will I begin!
• In the beginning:
• Initially coming up with the Wiki topic was challenging:
• What to do, create something to be used with a lesson,
something for sharing information?
• So I settled on a real need with my students!
• I give an end of the year project that requires students to
research a Civilization, and in the past, it was very
difficult to share all the information needed.
• I see the Wiki as a way to easily share the links and steps
to the assignment for all my students!
4. THE RSS FEED
• First Reactions: This could be interesting.
• Professional and Personal uses abound:
• This is an amazing resource that I had never known
existed, or the amount of possibilities it unlocks.
• Uses:
• Daily News from around the world
• Students getting involved in Local, US, and World Media outlets
and events.
• Subscribing to amazing educational sites with tons of resources
and ideas to try in my classroom.
• Personal: Staying up to date on my favorite sports teams.
• I cannot wait to really dive into the applications and
how I can use it in my class
6. BLOGGING
• First Reactions: The assignment I was Most Dreading!
• I had started out very apprehensive to the idea of a
blog.
• From my experience, blogs were an open diary, sharing
you ideas and the events of the day.
• After watching the video and seeing its potential, I really
started to fall in love with it!
• I plan on using it as a source of sharing enrichment
activities with my students, a “This Day in History”
segment, sharing upcoming events, and needed
materials.
• I hope to experiment more and learn how to hopefully
embed the website to my online course as well!
8. VARIOUS WEB TOOLS AND
APPLICATIONS
• First Reactions: Excited to learn more tools at my
disposal!
• Teaching in an online environment has prepared me a
little bit for using different online tools.
• My colleges and I generally share our lessons and ideas
via Google Drive, but I had little experience making
google forms. I was really excited to use this a way of
getting formative assessments for my students.
• I can embed the form with reading and questions in my
course, or share it with my students in live sessions, then
measure their progress with similar assignments as the
year progresses, while also getting a snap shot of where
they are at that moment!
10. OTHER TOOLS I LOOK FORWARD TO
USING!
• Pinterest
• Google Docs
• Dropbox
• Twitter
• Prezi
• Snagit
• Edmodo
• Socrative
11. REACTIONS TO MOODLE COURSE
• The Organization of Moodle was very normal to me.
As I teach online, my course is setup in a fairly similar
manner. Start with introductory materials and
presentation, move onto more tools and resources,
and finishing with the assignment.
• I would have preferred the have each rubric
located in the topic it was for, but overall it was well
organized and easy to maneuver.
• I greatly enjoyed the resources, and the way the
materials were being presented, especially the
videos, as they explained everything quickly and
concisely in a language I could comprehend!
