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Del.ic.ous
Love it! Have loved it for a while then my laptop had to be reimaged a few times & I began to get lazy reapplying my Del.ic.ous buttons to my toolbar. But not to fear I fixed it.....I will be tagging like a third grader at recess again =) I have used it the past to share sites with a colleague I was presenting with as we researched and created our presentation.
Wiki's
My district recently switched our teacher webpages over to Wiki's. It is new this year and we are still playing around with it. My campus has a private wiki for faculty only in which we use to post our upcoming calendar of events for the month, praises from our pricipal, links to sites we all use often........ then it has a blog section embedded where we are able to post questions and comments to each other. My pricipal often posts questions on our feelings about a recent training etc. As I said it is a new tool and slowly we are broadening the horizons of those who are new to it.
The downfall is in the past year we have had server problems and our wiki's wer not available. Now that the problem has been solved I am looking forward to updating my school wiki!
http://reinhardtwordwall.wikispaces.com/
This is my wiki concept that I am reforming from another teachers idea. I saw the idea and thought this would work for my students with our challenge to have all students indentifying and reading 300 high frequency words by the end of second grade. My hope is that students will enjoy typing in not only their word wall words but their word study words(spelling words) as well. My campus has a cart of alphasmarts which I plan to use so that students may type their mastered words in each week. I think it will also be rewarding to see their word bank literally grow!
fur.ly
what is this?!?!?!? is it even a website? yes and this is my newest fav 2.0 find. My distict ITS showed this to us during a training designed for tips & tricks when presenting to adult learners. I am going to use it in Aug during our Technology Integration Conference in my session Extreme Wiki Makeover.
fur.ly simply sortens several url's into one so that you may have your websites up and ready when you need them......whats that? Explorer and Firefox already have tabs? But with fur.ly you can save up to 5 and they are there and at your disposal ......but wait! you also can give your unique saved fur.ly url to your participants and they too can instantly have the sites needed.
Final Reflection
I have a growing list currently sitting next to my computer of  ideas for my school wiki, wordwall wiki and what needs to be implemented concerning student effectivness in evaluating a websites validity. During the beginning stages of my word wall wiki idea I thought students could go to the computer lab to type their new words mastered into their wikispaces. The problem for me was that I do not like to take away lab time for just typing I prefer to use it for creating. Then I remembered the Alphasmarts! This will be perfect! I am very excited to roll this program out in a few months!
I also feel that if I am going to take the time to educate my students on website authentication then why not parents too? I plan to put resources from this class on my wiki and offer a session at our technology nights this upcoming school year. Hey maybe I will invite Aunt Sally ;)