Many of you will notice, but this is not week one, but I still wanted to get down my thoughts for the last 4 weeks of our last class. My first impression was that I didn't like having a personal page on the wiki. I really liked the NING pages from our first two classes and thought they did a much better job of allowing each of us to express more about who we were and what we were all about. I know that it is done this way out of consideration of having us only use one application, but I wouldn't have minded using more if one has such a clear advantage in a specific area of functionality.
My second comment on the first week was the web site critique assignment. This was something I was planning on working on during the summer anyway, so I was glad to get a first shot at it here. I've found in my class with 7th graders that they'll trust anything that is online without even a second thought. I'm hoping to find some ways next year to get them to be more self directed in their evaluation of their sources, especially online. I'm starting to think I have a good plan in my with the "fake" websites listed on one of the articles included with the assignment. I believe it was the Shrock Page.
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