Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Thing 10

Creative Commons allows to gather information and use it with with permission.  It gives me the freedom to share information legally.  This will give the teacher license and freedom  to take information or a product that they find and share it with their students and other teachers by acknowledging the original authors.  I have never really paid attention to the CC logo on the websites that I have visited.  This is definitely something that I need to teach my students to do also.  It is important that they learn about fair use.  Th only problem is see with this is getting the students to buy into Creative Commons when they so freely use information from the internet.  

Thing 8

I can see myself using a wiki in the future.  They seem like they can be used to share knowledge and collaborate with other people. Since I am a Science teacher, I really enjoyed the the 6th Grade CodeBlue wikispace.  It gave various websites/links to find information on the body systems. Our students would enjoy these.  My only problem is with some of the links, the school or teacher would have to join to get information.  The Primary Math wiki was interesting.  It was set up so that teachers could share interesting lessons that their students were doing.  The only problem with this wiki was that you have to navigate through the teachers blog to get the lessons.  This was time consuming.
I enjoyed the FHS Wolves Den.  It was very easy to follow.  It was a wiki set up for her English and History classes. I like that she kept it updated.