Bit-By-Bit Seedlings #4 April 30, 2006

Sites to Check Out:

• Library Thing
• Think.com
• Writely & ThinkFire
• Talkr
• Turns blogs into audio (will read them to you)
• 3 feeds for free
  

• “Webheads in Action” – becoming a webhead online class (?)
• Yahoo Groups: Learning with Computers
• World Bridges

!? Rather than emailing a “class set” of documents, like letters to an author, why not put them on a class blog and just email the URL

Online Professional Development

• Podcasts: listen for credit
• Tailor to individual needs (differentiation for adults, PLC)
• Blogging staff development as reflective practice:
• Build in time to reflect
• End 15 minutes early to honor this practice
• Blogging as note taking (like I’m doing now)
• Create a wiki of common vocabulary

Also: Go North project

Podcast Link