What Can I do With a Wiki?

This week we are reading about wikis in class. A wiki is a website that allows the visitors to easily add, remove, and edit the available content. We have been hearing more about this feature at my SBTS meetings as well. In April, these will be available via Blackboard. So then the challenge comes...what do we do with them?

Yesterday I was talking with my kids who were anti-blogging due to senioritis. I told them I was going to have them do a wiki...completely kidding with them. They were like 'why must you torture us with all these new ideas?' So I told them it was coming to Blackboard and next year when they were in college they were going to see that stuff all over Blackboard. They were like 'they have Blackboard at college?' hahaha. I told them how much we used Blackboard at Virginia Tech and we were expected to print all of our notes off of Blackboard and how that was 5 years ago (wow...has it really been?) They were in denial...however, on a side note, their behavior has improved again. I spoke with the assistant principals & then they spoke to them.

Happy Early Dismissal/Snow Days to all!

My Students Hate This

So my blog assignment with my student tech assistants is not going over too positively. They really truly think this is torture and I am out to get them for something. I graded their assignments based on what they did. I gave the boys who titled their blog 'Dia de Sh#!t' in Spanish a 14/20 and a 15/20. I have never been so shocked by the rudeness of students. They're like 'what's wrong w/saying crap? it's my blog & i'll say what I want to say?' For those that are curious...here are their blogs (please do NOT comment on them though). It can be an interesting learning observation.

http://www.hoodles.blogspot.com
http://www.lettherebedwight.com
http://dangg123.blogspot.com/

Comments & Suggestions are welcome. I really honestly never thought having them write a reflection about their actions would create this much commotion. One of the boys has asked his counselor if he could audit the class. Have kids really gotten that lazy?!?