Twitter, Wikis, and Blogs Oh My!

Greater Atlanta Christian School

Team Project

• Problem: How do we effectively provide for sharing, collaboration, and communication among GACS faculty?

• Decision: Set up a Ning network• Modeled after PLP ning• Expert voices – PLP experts; Ning

in Education• Portal for all of our web 2.0 tools: multiple

wikis, discussion forums, blogs, etc.

• Campaign: Get our teachers on-board with this and actively participating!

Faculty Involvement

• High School Faculty Connection Groups• Set Professional Goals• Share goals/strategies on wiki page

• Class Trip Planning• Advisors coordinate carpooling/

cell phone numbers, etc.

• Techno Teach • Share technology-connected lesson plans• Documentation space for PLU classes

High School Scribe Notes

• Using a wiki, two Senior High teachers along with help from their students have begun posting daily classroom notes.

• Each day in class, one student uses a tablet PC to take class notes. 

• At the end of the period the notes are posted to the class wiki. 

• Every student in the class has access to read, copy, and print the classroom notes. 

• The teachers can choose to make the Scribe Notes a collaborative effort. 

• With a successful trial run in these courses we will be able to add additional courses in the near future.

Everyday Uses

• Twitter Effect• Classroom Booktalk

(voicethread)• Many Voices of Darfur

(collaborative project)

• Google is out; Delicious is in