Here are some of my ideas I am doing. I teach LIST courses (Literacy studies) in the College of Education and Health Professions. I am a second year professor. Here is my webpage: http://www3.uta.edu/faculty/peggys/index.html
1. Blogging with both online Master’s students and pre-service teachers in a shared space.
2. Using student authored video and professor authored videos. The professor authored videos are generally mini-lectures, book talks, or brief demonstrations. The students have reported they like them. Please feel free to leave comments on any of my YouTube videos and ideas on ways to better use the YouTube site.
3. Another thought I have about information sharing from the web on our course blog for Literacy Studies: teachers and teacher candidates often look to the web for teaching ideas and activites that are “ready to go”. However, we need to teach them how to carefully and critically evaluate this information. There’s “too much information” on the web.
How can we as educators of teacher candidates best steer students towards web resources that they can use and evaluate for their current and future lesson plans? E.g., how do we teach them to “navigate” the teacher resources out there so they don’t go straight to the worksheet sites.
The blog might be one tool to compile resources, foster their own searches, and have them use targeted, “pre-filtered” websites like http://readwritethink.org which is a site affiliated with our major literacy professional organizations.
