My useful Jing

On Friday, I mentioned to one of my CTE colleagues that my classes were creating their own blogs. He asked me if I could send him a link on how to do that. I agreed to, and then I thought 'why not use jing and post it on my EDU 255 portfolio as well.'
So, if you would like, you can see a 5-minute attempt to walk a novice through creating his first blog. TaDa.

I would also suggest that teachers should watch the video that is included in this post. It follows the John Kotter steps of change: see, feel, change. It seems to me that most of us teachers live as if the way we have learned, and how we have taught is the same way it is always going to be. "Just get me through today." This video can be a paradigm shifter, in a positive way..

I struggled over the many options we had in choosing a vehicle to display our course portfolio. I started to create a Ning social network for my business classes, but I had not checked to see if Ning is accessible at our school. It's not.

I also really liked the idea of a wiki as a useful teaching tool, especially for the collaborative nature of the platform. Also, I loved the idea of separate pages for distinct projects. However, wikispaces is blocked at my school. Here is a link to my not-too-advanced wiki.

Thank you,

Rick Burd, EDU 255