Thursday, January 17, 2008

District H.S. English wikki

Now we're talking. This was the most useful piece we've done in class, as far as I'm concerned. They are still not as easy to use as bulletin boards, but they are simpler to set up. What they did with Central's English is exactly what I've been trying to do at Highland. Unfortunately, I'm not getting much buy in from the rest of the English Dept. What if we take things one step further? Why not create a wikki for the entire district for high school English that anyone who contributes can access? We would be able to select from a wide variety of lessons and units for all the literature we teach, including IB and AP. Why should we continually have to reinvent the wheel each year when we get assigned all new classes? The work has been done numerous times already. How handy would it be for all of us to access pre-written lesson plans, unit maps-and all aligned to the standards? Is there anyone out there who is interested in trying this? I think it would be powerful in so many ways-and it would help us all to standardize the high school curriculum as the district is pressing us to do. Who's with me?
b.c.