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[|Thinking Creatively: Teachers as designers of Content, Technology and Pedagogy part1] : I like the way these two used Steven Corbert's The Word to create their presentation. [|Part 2] I didn't realize you can set up moodle so that students can only read comments after they have entered their own comments. That was one of the things that I didn't like about blogs that students are told to respond to. For math, I can see the benefit of this. I can have students describe the strategy they used to solve a problem. After posting it, they can see others strategies and find some that think like they do and others that think in various was, but all getting to the same end point...hopefully. I wonder if students would find ways around this by entering an incomplete strategy, look at others and then add to their own. We would be able to see it, but it is still a possibility unless we can see their responses before they are posted which some blogs allow. Also, I love when all the different technology we could be using to teach/assess our content was rapidly popping up and they both agreed that it is too much for us to handle. They also mention the problems with one lab for many students (in our case 600 students) and where we are restricted from many sites in our classrooms (and the lab). We are hoping to get some laptop labs with this grant and I often wonder how this will change my teacher. Of course, this is something I look forward to tackling.

FANTASTIC WORK ON YOUR BLOG. I AM GLAD YOU WERE ABLE TO FIND THIS A USEFUL SPACE TO RECORD YOUR IDEAS! 15/15