Using Web 2.0 in English Class
I am scheduled to do my student teaching in the fall. I’ve contacted my mentor already to find out what kinds of things we will be doing and one of the books we’ll be reading is The Outsiders. I hadn’t read that in years so I Googled it and ran across this site http://bionicteaching.com/?p=130. It is a blog by a teacher who posted her plan to help her kids understand the 60s vocabulary in the book. Her thought was to have the kids do a vocab blog. Other teachers responded to her idea and some even posted other ideas that they use to, including wikis. I’ve already been emailing my mentor these great ideas hoping she will allow me some freedom to incorporate some of these great tools into her lesson plans!
The bionic teaching blog is great. I worked with one of the th authors for a short while, his name is Tom Woodward, and he is a really imaginative and creative person. That blog is full using a series on open tools and content to frame lessons in some really imaginative and exciting ways. Good find, this is a great resource blog.