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A Day In the Life of a Web 2.0 Teacher ... After they completed EDU 5475 Emerging Technologies at SJU //**Finish the Story - What do you think Jenna will do throughout her day ? You can add to the beginning, the middle or the end or even enhance what another student adds ...**//

Jenna is a wonderful teacher. She's a very lucky teacher, in fact, because Jenna just completed a course at St. Joseph's University in Emerging Internet Technologies. Jenna's virtual toolkit is packed with goodies and she's ready to take on teaching in a whole new way. How will Jenna's teaching day look different after this course? That's for you to decide.

Jenna begins each week by discussing the goals and objectives for her students on the class wiki she created called "MyClass&Yours" at the beginning of the year. She makes sure that she can alter or adjust the goals/objectives based on the feedback and assessments her students are required to post/complete each week. Jenna believes that incorporating a more collaborative approach to education between herself and her students has created a more open and rich learning environment.She has available on her website a rubric from Kathy Schrock's website ([] ), for her students to use as a guide when posting the the wiki. They can track their work by looking at the rubric which will help to keep them on the topic and assist them in making viable postes weekly on Jenna's class wiki.

Another project Jenna uses each week is her class blog. At the start of the school year parents and students are shown how to access the class blog and also how to leave comments and questions. Each Friday during the week Jenna posts up an entry giving a summary of what the class did each week, what the coming week will include, and links to some student work when it is available. Jenna often uses Google Docs as a hosting resource for examples of student work. She is then able to provide links in the blog for parents to download and see examples of what their kids are doing. Jenna introduces her principal to blogs.The principal is excited about it and will now be posting his monday updates on his blog.

During the weekend Jenna attended a professional development seminar in Second Life where she was introduced to many Web 2.0 tools. As she reflects about where she would like her students and the students of her school to go after the seminar, she creates lesson plans that will incorporate these new found tools. She also decides to share what she has learned with colleagues at her school. She plans on sharing with the English department tools that she feels would benefit their curriculum and so on. Jenna hopes to coordinate one of her lessons with the Family and Consumers Sciences teachers in a project that will span both subject areas. She plans on attending another seminar in Second Life that will continue to build her knowledge of integrating technology into her class and ultimately her school.

Jenna is excited to be collaborating with her Language Arts grade partner. The Language Arts teacher is reading a historical novel with her students and Jenna is assisting them with creating their own movie about the novel. Jenna created a **Wiki** space so the students could share and edit their ideas about the main events of the story and to create a storyboard for their movie. Students will borrow digital cameras from the school library to take pictures for their project and upload them to **Picasa** to share with each other. Students will collaborate with each other and decide on the final storyboard and then import their pictures to **PhotoStory3.** Completed projects will be uploaded to the school's YouTube channel so parents, community members, and administrators can view the students' work. Jenna has additional plans to collaborate with the Social Studies and Science teacher as well.

When Jenna meets with the Social Studies teachers, they begin to collaborate on a project using social bookmarking. They decide to combine their Greek Mythology units: Jenna is reading The Adventures of Ulysses with her class while the SS teacher is focusing mainly on the historical background. To conclude the unit, the teachers will assign their students a Greek God or Goddess that the students will create a Facebook Page for. Students will update the page with a biography, pictures and general facts about their God/Goddess. Next, the students will need to post appropriate comments on other students walls, as if they are the God. Of course, Jenna will keep a stern watch on the students to make sure they are using Facebook in the correct manner. Jenna is confident that her students will love the assignment! At the conclusion of this assignment, Jenna hosts a podcast using Audacity, where the students involved in this project not only discuss the Adventures of Ulysses but also their experience with using Facebook. This podcast is made available to everyone in the school as well as parents and community members. Such great feedback was posted by students on Jenna's class wiki that she decided to use this tool to do weekly podcasts on the projects that her students were involved in. Jenna shares her success with technology with her friends, who are also teachers, through the use of twitter. Jenna and her friends are constantly sharing links to cool and useful websites as well as planning collaborative assignments.