Everyone in the department attended our meeting this morning/afternoon. People seem to be open to taking a new direction in programming. Grades7-8 we'll focus on the basics of short story--literary elements like plot, character, conflict, and setting. We'd like to use new materials--but budgetary restraints have to be taken into consideration. Photocopying can be expensive but we'll make class sets to be used for at least a couple of years. This should help us avoid copyright related issues as well.
We're looking into setting up a social network (blog, etc.) for the kids. Our tech guy suggested "Ning". I'll have to check it out this weekend. The idea is to get kids to create a blog and other related online technologies to create a mult-genre response to novels, reading materials, writing prompts, and educational concepts taught in the classroom. The kids could create, research, and publish a variety of ideas and concepts based on class discussion and their own interpretation of the material covered in class.The teacher would have access in order to comment, suggest, assess and evaluate the content and design features of the blog. The blog would become a homework project with a reasonable timeline.
Areas of concern centered around privacy and cyber-bullying. Perhaps the blogger could select those who would have access to comment about the material on the blog. Our tech guy will consult with administration and review board policy.
The roof situation hasn't changed, but the weather continues to cooperate.
I'll leave ya with a little Martyn Bennett
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