I watched an archive webinar hosted on PBS teachers website Remixing Shakespeare for 21st Century Students. I’m not sure that middle school students can handle all that delving deeply into Shakespeare can include, but there were some great technology based activities that would work great in some of the areas in middle school that teachers need help integrating technology. One of the moderators presented a hypertext activity that would be great for either a poetry unit or for a descriptive writing activity. Students use typed text, either a copied or original poem or a piece of their descriptive writing and then hyperlink images to specific words or phrases to reference digital pictures of what the words are saying. It was an interesting way to find out information and I am looking for a live webinar that I can participate in, one that’s free of course, but in an area I am interested in learning about. If you know about one you think I might enjoy let me know.
One thing I found distracting was the unnecessary chat that people kept typing in the chat window. Just because they are not whispering in class doesn’t mean it isn’t disrespectful and distracting. The moderators had asked that non related chat or questions be avoided, but it seemed as if several participants either ignored this request or didn’t think it applied to them. People often seem to think that common courtesy is suspended in electronic interaction and they say or do things they wouldn’t do in person, and would even be appalled if someone did to them in person, but the electronic curtain hides them so they seem to think it isn’t important to behave appropriately. Thinking about the webinar made me realize that part of our library technology curriculum needs to be `nettiquette’.
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