On Friday John Evans and I walked 9 colleagues through an inservice on Twitter, Diigo and other aspects of social networking.
Here is the wiki we created for the day.
They got the message. Great things happened, all participants loved wordle, they really saw the great parts of social bookmarking.... and perhaps twitter might sink in too. It was interesting as the day progressed how many looks of amazement kept on coming. They were really into learning the tools and figuring out how to integrate them into their lessons and with their team members.
What was different this time? The first thing was all participants were keen to learn. Different from other sessions I have done. Secondly John and I gave them small ideas that can be used instead of hitting them hard with How to use Wiki's, blogging in your classroom. This might be what I have been doing wrong up until now...
When you start with these little steps you are able to start the process. Show how easy some of the technology and applications are to make a simple lesson brilliant. Wordle.net a simple application has to many lesson possibilities to count. Start with this instant success, now push participants into a social aspect of the Read Write Web. We introduced Diigo. Here you bookmark, and save to a group. This bonds the group together and shows the power of collaboration.
You see where this is going. Once you have them making a few baby steps, they see the results then......... you go to the big dogs!! You introduce them to wikis blogs, and other pedagogical changing tools.
Enough already it was a great day. Thank you John. Thank you Sargent Park Staff.
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