Monday, August 2, 2010
535- Week 3- Feed Me!
After this week's readings, I finally understand RSS feeds! I'm so excited to learn that I will be able to keep up with reading in such an efficient way. My quest before school starts is to find RSS sites that will be appealing to the teachers I work with. I would really like to begin showing them little nuggets of useful technology to motivate them to use their computers more. With the school website being everyone's homepage, I could put a link to an aggregator that would be easy for all to access. Many of my co-workers really avoid technology like the plague, which is disappointing to say the least. However, unless they are ready to retire, which several are, they are going to have to get acquainted with the computer lab sooner rather than later. I have just learned that my district will be mandating a quarterly assessment for grades K4 through 12th that will be given on the computer! Unfortunately,from the school buildings to the teachers, right on down to the students who've had limited access, I believe much of the district is not ready for this.
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Collaboration is one reason I am looking forward to getting back in the classroom! There are so many things that we have learned that I can share with colleagues in order to help students all in the High School learn better. I also have co-workers that avoid technology and they really shouldn't. What I really enjoy about what we are learning is that it is pretty easy to use. Older teachers should try to learn these pieces of technology to the best of the abilities and not be afraid to ask a younger teacher for help if needed.
ReplyDeleteIt will be tough - a mandate is fine if you have primed for it. Good luck
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're enjoying RSS. Make sure you have them add Free Tech 4 Teachers
ReplyDeleteIt's really helpful for all teachers.
I hope they plan to have an inservice to show all of the teachers how to administer the assessments. Sometimes outside groups are brought in to do the testing and they facilitate the tests, providing the students with a "how to" before beginning. We just used a testing firm for this and they were actually pretty great.