There’s a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that has Calvin hammering nails into the coffee table. His mom comes in and freaks, saying “What are you doing?” Their is a pause and then Calving replies “Isn’t it obvious!”
Sometimes, this is how I feel when I’m working with the various tools that I use each day at school. I think it’s obvious what I’m doing, kind of like hammering nails into a coffee table. And it may be obvious to others who are using similar tools and doing similar work. However, I think that many teachers react like Calvin’s mom - in some type of disbelief and shock. It looks like we’re hammering nails into their coffee table.
So, I wondering, in the same vein of my previous posts, what 5 tools do you think would be the best to use with teachers so that they don’t think we’re hammering nails into that coffee table.
My list looks like this:
1. pbwiki - staff wiki of information and events with calendar of school-wide activities.
2. eye-jot - introduced to me by Alec Courosa - just something fun that teachers can do. It is amazing how you can get teachers using things just for fun.
3. Audacity - recording using the computer lab instead of tape-recorder. Students like wearing headphones and having a microphone!
4. Zoho business - introduction to online desktop. Slowly beginning to look at using online document sharing.
5. Google Earth - there’s just so much to do with this program.
Okay, I now pass this on to the following three: Julie Lindsay, Mrs.Durff, David Truss
They can choose to participate or this will die a quick and sudden death.
