Thing 18

I took a look through the various gadget/widget offerings and found many types with different functions. I could imagine using some of the automatically updating widgets, like one that proposed a science question of the day students could answer. A map could be used in social studies. I am not yet familiar with all of the map offerings, but perhaps there could be an interactive one with the information of different countries.

Thing !7

It is very hard for me to say what is the difference between a blog and a wiki, since I know very little about both. I have not used my blog since creating it except for responding to questions for web 2.0 23 things. I am sorry to say I just don't get the format. I can't find my way around it and I don't know who are my contacts are and when to follow whom. I know I am hopeless. I found e-mail to be challanging LOL. Now I have been introduced to wiki which means a simple way, I think. I do have to say that the wikispaces has more informational guidence and I am muddling my way through. By using a few of the teacher based wikis I am somewhat more excited to get started on using a wiki for classroom use. I have been wanting something that I can communicate with parents and students all in one place rather than e-mailing each parent or student.

As I said before the blog page is too complicated for me and won't even know where to begin to have students use it. On the other hand, I feel I can be more comfortable and productive with the wiki because they have it geared to educators and setting up classroom users.

I'm not sure what problems I will encounter when using wikispaces in the classroom yet, but I will have to depend on my tech man from monroe to help me.