If you’ve visited before, you’ll find this site has a different look. I wanted to have sub-menus (particularly for Resources), as the pages are getting rather long. The previous theme did not display sub-menus; this one does.
I’ve added a new page on Multi-Age Education links and have added significantly to the Resources page. Have a look, visit sites that look interesting, and leave comments for others.
I’ve been adding links to both “resources” – stuff you can use and “reflections” – where are we headed. Please check them out and add some reflections here when you find something that strikes a note.
This site, one for students,and Mrs. Maire’s 2009 site are hosted on WordPress’ servers, hence the URL ending with wordpress.com.
We used the wildwaldenites.us domain as a base for multiple WordPress installations for the 2009-10 school year. We are letting the domain name lapse. Students in grades 5-8, and probably 3-4 as well, will be introduced to the Web Tool in the Google toolbox (Fall 2010) as an alternative to WordPress’ tools.
Kathy Maire, Walden School’s third grade teacher, created a site for her third grade class for the 2009-10 school year. Interest was high for perhaps a month, then died out. She conjectures that it’s due in large part to the students’ lack of involvement in the creation of the web pages/content.
We intend to have students in grades 3 & 4 making web pages directly this 2010-11 year using Google’s tools. Need to hold discussions on responsible behavior, etc. before they’re introduced to the tools & processes of web page creation.
This site is being set up so that staff at Walden School can have a platform for trying out WordPress. This one is on wordpress.com, as is Mrs. Maire’s class web page. The school had multiple WordPress sites the 2009-2010 year. The 2010-2011 year we are beginning to use Google Apps, and plan to use them to build a “walled community” of student and staff-produced web pages safe from prowlers.
