Week Eleven 3/30/09 M.Clover

This week we are supposed to blog about our New Literacies project and I have to say that I’m very pleased with the way our project (Brad and I) is coming along. We were originally going to create an inventory of podcasts using Google reader and Thewildclassroom.com but we decided that the amount of information we were getting wasn’t enough to really do what we wanted to do SO, we have now decided that we will be using multiple online sources to get podcasts from in order to create a “bank” of information for students and then a separate “bank” for teachers. We’re assuming this would work best for a teacher and for students who are upper elementary or maybe even Middle school. As of right now things are going rather smoothly, we’re getting a bunch of podcasts a day on random science topics and attempting to sort through them. We’re going to try to sort them out so that a teacher could possibly use them in different units, but we’ll just have to see about that! Overall, I think it’s really neat and I like this project!