Back to School 2.0
I have been vacationing/working on Martha's Vineyard with my friend Darcy Hoyt who is a middle school teacher.
We have been strategizing about how she can use new web services for her teaching this year. Here's what she has set up so far:
Basecamp
This best-in-class project management software will be her hub for managing homework. She has created a free account and will add all of her students and their families to the list of people who can access the account. All homework and communications will be posted here. Her students can submit homework through basecamp.
Blog
Darcy has set up a blog where she can also post information about what is going on in her classroom. She can enable all of her students as trusted posters so they too can use the blog to document what they are learning. Darcy has already been blogging for the past three years. Early on she set up a blog to document an action learning project where her 8th grade class built 6 West Greenland kayaks.
Google Calendar
Darcy has created a google calendar where she can publish events and activities for her class. The calendar can be embedded into her blog (see our calendar as an example of this).
Delicious
Darcy will create a delicious account where she can bookmark resources by key word for her class. One she establishes the key words, her students can add resources to their own delicious accounts and the class can build a shared set of resources.
Flickr
Darcy can post all class photos to a public Flickr account. This can also be opened up to her students for their photos.
And the school year hasn't even begun. I think that there are many ways in which teachers can benefit from these new web services and we will continue to document what Darcy is using and how it is working
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