Your+Thoughts+About+This+Experiment

Please Post Your Thoughts and Helpful Hints Regarding This Wiki "Experiment".
Feel free to add a new heading to this page! Do not feel like you need to add your initials or name.

<> TGIF- Joselyn
===- I am very glad that each of you joined the wiki. As it is the New Year and many people are just getting back into their "work life" and spending alot of time addressing voice mails and unviewed e-mails, I appreciate your willingness to learn! - Joselyn===

Curious About The Time Limit
I think this is a wonderful experiment, but I was rather curious as to why the limit of 2 days. I think many may be intimidated by the formatting syntax and might be hesitant to post.

We could extend the limit.
I set it at 48 hours so that participants could get a feel for what it might be like to do a short term "project" in their classrooms. I was also trying to be cognizant of everyone's busy schedules. I thought that by setting a time limit that participation would be greater since many teachers have limited time.

What do others think? - Joselyn
I do some of my best "thinking" when I am away from school and have time to reflect. I think it would be helpful to extend this until Monday.

Yes, extend the time limit. As an old retired public school teacher I need the weekend (most likely Sunday night) to work on a project.

Thanks for extending the time for this activity. I have enjoyed learning about wikis.

Possiblities for MidLink Editors
Joselyn, thanks for putting this wiki up for us to work with this week. I have enjoyed exploring the possibilities for use of this technology. I hope that our team will use this tool of collaboration as we need it for projects we are working on together.

Skill Development for teachers
This is a great idea for instruction of teachers on the use of technology. Get them here and teach them how to use the tech stuff and get current with what the possibilities are in the world of instruction. Also, teachers are self contained with their students is the historic classroom model and this shows the teachers how they can get their students and themselves outside the classroom and expand the student's view of the world with technology. It allows both student and teacher to learn new skills that can be used, and it can act as a breeding ground for all kinds of additional skill learning. I am from the old school and can well recall when we first started working with the early Apples, and inservice started with learning to turn the computer on and off. It has come a long, long way from those early years. All I have to do is take a look at the web and realize just how much collaborative effort that there is available to the teacher who will take the opportunity to learn the skills and use those in the classroom. The experiment is exemplary of what technology has to offer to the teacher and the student. In the end, we are all students and each of us can be teachers. Bill