Thing #8

I am amazed at the amount of resources available.  A whole new world has been revealed.  It's like going to a teacher's conference while sitting at my desk.  I have access to creative teaching ideas from a team of teachers I have never even met.  Three wikis from which I gained some great ideas were Kindergarten Counting Book, Primary Math and Schools in the Past. Viewing these wikis was a wonderful way to get connected to other kindergarten teachers' blogs.  Kindergarten Tales is a great blog. It gave me lots of ideas to try in my own classroom. I will definitely visit Kindergarten Counting Book and Primary Math again and again.  I think I could use Kindergarten Counting Book in the classroom by having my students view the counting book and add a number page.  I would like to contribute but this wiki didn't give clear directions of how to do so.  References to 'page' and 'thread' were a little confusing. I  looked up 'thread' on Wikipedia to see what it was.  Primary Math does provide easy directions to add to the site.  It also provides a table of contents up front which is very helpful to determine if the wiki will be useful to me.   I think doing a similar wiki to the Schools in the Past wiki would a lot of fun for the students and family members.  Another possible class activity would be to use a wiki to make a class story, each child contributing a section of the story.