Sunday, August 12, 2007

Teaching Teachers


Tomorrow is the first day the teachers will be back on campus. This is where the rubber meets the road. All my plans, hopes, and ideas will either successfully cruise along or crash and burn. I want to set up a time on Tuesday to teach the teachers about RSS feeds and train them to use the wiki to schedule. I have shown several earlybird teachers and have gotten favorable comments from them.

I've been getting more questions about my plan to use a wiki to schedule time in my library. I find it interesting that I keep getting the comment, "You mean someone could just go in and delete someone else out of the library?". Now I have to admit, that thought never occurred to me. I guess in theory that could happen, but then we have always done the paper schedule in pencil, and the option to cross out or erase off the book has been available for years. I think that has happened once in 18 years, and that was a misunderstanding on my part!

On Friday, I spent a part of the afternoon scheduling classes for my Library Orientation. The process seems pretty smooth. You do need to know a time frame, but once you put one in, it gives you an autofill option, so once you get going it goes even quicker. I also like that if you are planning on coming in multiple days in a row you just need to enter once, and it will fill in all the days.

1 comment:

Jackie S, 2.0 project manager said...

FYI: in response to your teachers' concern that someone could just "delete" someone else out of the library, please let them know that all additions and edits to the wiki are automatically sent to your e-mail. That is an option that the CSLA 2.0 Team uses for the California 2.0 Curriculum Connections Wiki -- and it works well. Best wishes.
- JackieS
CSLA 2.0 Team project manager