Even though we can't meet in person, you can share your classrooms through a virtual tour.
During the next two weeks, you should be working on a virtual classroom tour. This assignment has two goals. First, all of us will get a sense of the wide variety of schools and classrooms represented in our Virtual Institute. Secondly, I would like each of you to play around a bit with using technology as a means of publishing writing and sharing your classroom. Your tour should include several photos with captions or narration.
After you have taken pictures and written about your classroom, pick a specific place to share your work. You can create a blog like mine through Blogger; you can create a website like the one on which I have put the assignments; or you can create a PowerPoint and share it with us on Google Docs at docs.google.com . The Google options are free and relatively user-friendly. Microsoft has an option I haven't tried yet that someone might like to try and teach the rest of us: "Microsoft Document Connection."
Each venue has a brief tutorial about how to use it most effectively. If you already have a website or Blog, you can place your tour there and share the link with us by responding to this post. If all this technology drives you crazy, please just send me a PowerPoint, and I can share it with others. The most important part of the assignment. after all, is sharing your classroom with the rest of our class. Don't be intimidated by the technology; just play around with it a bit.
