Collective Knowledge

Mrs. Marino posted the following message in a previous post to our blog:

"Wow! If you haven't been through Nettrekker, you need to go. It helps weed out unnecessary searching and really narrows it down for the students! I'm going to try a class blog. I'll let you know how it goes." The article I linked to Mrs. Marino's comment here explains one teacher's experience with experimenting with blogging with her students. It also includes a rubric she uses with blogging.

I sure hope Mrs. Marino won't mind that I re-stated her entry in this new post. She made a great point--one to which each of us "has something we can add"! In terms of being informed, not one of us can come even close to being as informed as we all are when we are "collectively informed"! A huge part of the untapped potential of online communication, such as blogs, is our ability to become members of learning networks, increase our collective knowledge, and archive it. This school blog creates the space for such a learning network-our task is to tap the power of it.

In today's training session we focused entirely on the use of My Portfolio in netTrekker. While we are quite focused on netTrekker right now, our conversation does not have to be limited to netTrekker! We all have something we can add that is relative to technology integration. So jump in! Inquiring minds are waiting to know!