Planning week has been a perfect time to get staff on board with Google Docs and Delicious. Staff can share their Inquiry Plan online and make changes together. Add to this that the Specialist staff members can also add to the document with the hassel of email or the worry about which is the most up to date document.
I look forward to getting to the stage that our school can use Google Docs with the students. Tom Barrett’s blog, “So can I use Google Docs at home? “ (http://tbarrett.edublogs.org) about the way he is developing the use of Google tools with his class demonstrates how powerful and useful they can be as a teaching and learning tool.
We (our school) will have to change the way that we access the Internet because at the moment Google is blocked for students! I think it is the beginning of a culture change too because we have not encouraged students to sign up for online subscriptions, in fact we positively discouraged it.
Staff now have the Delicious Add Ons so that they can bookmark easily. It is a pity that the Delicious site has dropped out twice now just when staff were about to see how clever it could be. I am encouraging staff to have an account for their grade as well. They would then be able to direct their students to their Delicious account to use the sites with a certain tag.
We have begun our Web2.0 journey but have such a long way to go….
