So far, so good

It would seem that everyone is pretty much on track for having a wiki up and running. Excellent work, people. Now for the hard part - doing the work online. Everyone seemed to have a list or at least the semblance of one ready to go. Today we wrote the letter to the king, or at least got a rough draft done. So far, so good.

One thing though that must be resolved. How will these be assessed online? If we are to have class/student assessment and commentary on work done, how will that work? It would, I think mean that the work done would have to be posted to a common site such as the class wiki and be examined there by everyone together. Or to the class blog, perhaps. Otherwise, it means having to access each person's wiki, one by one which would be a long, tiresome and frustrating process.

Another issue has come up and that is computer availability. There is, as I have said here before only one Mobile Lab, two room labs and the Library. This for the entire school to use. If we are to be a project-based class, learning and using 21st century tools, it means reliable access to computers as we need them. Otherwise, if we have to wait, a project can get drawn out for weeks. The only alternative is that you the student will have to do more of this at home or outside the classroom. Because I can tell you it will get very tiresome having to go to the library or to the lab every day or almost every day. Or I can try to get some units for the room but then where are we going to put them?

Guess what? I heard today that the grant which stocked the labs from 3 or 4 years ago bought 10 mobile labs. Yet only one is available for classroom use, one is in the Library and another is in the Fine Arts department. Where are the other 7? Maybe we could perhaps get our hands on one of those for our exclusive use? Ya think. Something to work on.

Good work this week people, let's keep it up.