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By: shellterrell

shellterrell — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:44:18 +0000

Sue Waters,

Your idea of having a list is wonderful for classroom management. I will definitely add this to an upcoming TechTuesday blog on helping teachers to maximize computer use in the classroom. Even with one or two computers, the students can still participate in Web 2.0 learning and reap the benefits of this type of learning.

Thanks for the wonderful ideas!
Shelly

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:12:53 +0000

Hi Shelly, yes lack of access to computers can be an issue. I’m not sure what it is like where you are but here they have at least one computer per room.

One trick teachers use is have a list of the students next to the computer and the students update their blog any time during the day. They have to cross their name off the list when done.

By: shellterrell

shellterrell — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:12:01 +0000

Hello Kirsten,

Thank you for accompanying me on the journey!

By: Kirsten Winkler

Kirsten Winkler — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:52:16 +0000

Hi,

only one week! Well done. I am looking forward to read more about your travel through the blogging world

By: shellterrell

shellterrell — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:32:54 +0000

Sue Waters,

Thank you for fixing the column. Much of the html code I have learned, I have forgotten. However, blogging is helping me remember it.

Next week, I will be talking about getting computers to use. In the US many of the schools still lack computers in the classroom. I am sure this is a problem in other countries as well. Many teachers tell me that this is the reason they do not integrate web 2.0 learning. I have talked to one teacher who has found one solution that works for her. I hope others will respond and tell me what works for them.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:05:48 +0000

Hi Shelly, congratulations on setting up your blog and you already have the gold star from me! Which you should wear with pride.

For a person who has been blogging for just a week it is obvious that you have done a lot of research and are using what you have learnt. Well done. I’ve seen people blogging for a year that haven’t appreciated what you have in a week.

Sorry about tweaking your blog without telling you. I keep forgetting I must mention it before I do. Let me explain why. You had done an excellent job but because I view it in Flock rather than Internet Explorer I could see that visually it had a problem that you weren’t seeing.

Here is the screenshot of what your sidebar looked liked. Since many of your readers from twitter are tech savvy they would use Flock or FireFox as their web browser so that was why I fixed it for y ou. And now that I done it you can look at the code I used and know how to do these types of edits in the future.

Can you explain what you mean by “Do you have a tip for teachers to get computers in the classroom? ” For them to get access or to get them to use?