Read/Write Web
The Social Studies Department at my school has started using a <a href=”http://central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/socstlessonarchive/”>Weblog to archive lessons </a>for the various classes in the department. I’m thinking now that it probably should have been a wiki, but they wanted the ability to comment back to the author of the lesson and it seemed that a blog would be more functional in that respect. They also wanted the ability to tag their entries and to search by those keywords, a feature that the Manila <a href=”http://zelotes.ent.iastate.edu/metadata/”>metadata plugin </a>allows for. So now, if a teacher is looking for a plan about Native Americans, for example, she can just <a href=”http://central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/socstlessonarchive/metasearch/search?mtts=keywords&searchterm=Native&Search=Search”>search for it </a>within the site. Not as elegant as what Alan has done, I know, but it works. (My programming skills are, shall we say, less than exceptional.)
What I was thinking about as I read <a href=”http://static.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/gems/socstlessonarchive/Nativedebatewebloglesson2005.doc”>one of the plans</a> is all of the ways it could be helped by these new tools of ours. Now I know that this particular one is more of a history lesson, but what about adding these ideas to the study of Native Americans:
<li>Create a blog written in the voices of those
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