EdtecComet

I am a mother of two teenagers and an elementary school teacher. I have been teaching for 10 years and am trying to try new technologies as they become available to me, or as I learn about them, that is one reason why I am in SDSU’s COMET program. I enjoy going to the beach, snowboarding, and fishing.

Experience With Podcasts, Wikis, and Blogs

• I tried to do a book blog with Blogger, but that required too much signing in by my students for the comments to be readable by other classmates.
• I have been creating Podcasts over the years, but just as Reader’s Theater. I never really knew how or where to upload them to make them available to my class. Everything seemed too complicated or expensive.
• I also tried a wiki space with my students, however because my class this year required a lot of attention, I dropped the idea half-way through. I think I had two students actually contribute to the wiki. I found the wiki to be very helpful in compiling a potluck list for the staff. I also thought that if I used the wiki space for the potluck list, more teachers would become familiar with using it, and hopefully start using something like it in their class.