I had every intentions of posting about a wiki… I find it a fascinating tool. I WILL post about a wiki… AFTER I tell you about my adventure.
I created a new blog. I was so proud of it, until I realized I put it in the wrong place… it’s on the edublogs COMMUNITY board… oy. Now, creating it in the first place was a real risk at the time, because Nate was away at a conference, and I couldn’t holler to him with my questions. But, I tried it anyway… and was panic-stricken when I found it in the community place. I tried to remove it, but couldn’t… so I hid beneath the table for a few hours. Then, I found Nate… and James… and both reassured me that I didn’t mess up as badly as I thought. But, I’m going to let that blog fade away into oblivion and hope the community ignores me.
Never one to quit… I created ANOTHER blog… but got this one in the right place. It’s called brailleblog (what else?) and you can find it at http://brailleblog.edublogs.org Stop in and say hi to my university students. I want a lot of action on it so they can see the potential for communication.
It gets better… I put the URL up on Blackboard, and now my students can access their course and go directly to brailleblog to post. I created brailleblog because of the limitations of the discussion board, where I am the only one who can create content; they can only respond. This gives them a role in designing their own learning experiences.
Well, I THOUGHT I’d be able to enter each of them as a contributor to brailleblog, but I only get a blank screen. Nate tried, and couldn’t do it either, so he convinced me to email James to ask him about it. I’m waiting to hear how to enter my students into brailleblog. For the moment, they can only add comments. Hopefully, they will soon be able to take a contributor role.
So… what’s happening? Five of my students have already posted on brailleblog. It was born less than 24 hours ago.
This took me a lot of time to figure out, so that’s why I didn’t post on the wiki yet. Forgive me?
