Learning rewards: Watching others sharing what they learn

Today, Melissa Ring and Melissa Peretich invited me to attend an in-service training that they were facilitating at Rocky Mountain High School. It is so rewarding seeing these two taking what we had learned about Web 2.0 tools and teaching others. As a learner, it is so great to see other learners taking co-created ideas and passing them on and expanding on them.

Between the two to them they discussed Slideshare, Google documents, Ning, and Creative Commons. Google documents and Slideshare seemed to be of great interest to those attending. There were many concerns about inappropriate content on Slideshare. Someone suggested the use of a Webquest to direct students to particular Slideshare content, however, we quickly realized that students may still be exposed by related content that is inappropriate. After the in-service training, I had an idea that maybe teachers could embed Slideshare content into a "safe" blog, subsequently minimizing exposure to inappropriate content.

I want to say thank you to Melissa Ring and Melissa Peretich for continuing the discussion and learning that we started in EDUC331... I am very proud to be your colleague. Keep up the great work.