Week #8, Thing #18

Just last week my son's new teacher (4th grade) recommended setting the kids up to use Google Docs for their schoolwork. We set my son up with Gmail and he has done two assignments already on Google Docs. For this exercise my son and I tried sharing documents back and forth. I also experimented with setting up a spreadsheet to use a a temporary calendar for scheduling branch book discussion sets. I wonder if a wiki would work well for that?

Week #7, Thing #17

Unfortunately I wasn't able to access the wiki. Too bad, I think it would have been fun.

Week #7, Thing #16

Checked out a number of Wikis. They seem especially useful as a repository of shared knowledge. The MD Overdrive Consortium is in the process of setting up a wiki for the minutes from our meetings, the selection rotation, and other information that people frequently seem to lose have to send e-mail to the group asking for it to be re-sent. A wiki might be a good way for staff to make subject need requests.