Week 7, Thing #17

I will definitely use a Teachertube video that I found on the Raven About Web 2.0 Curriculum Wiki to help explain the reasons to use a wiki in collaborative planning. Ann M's post of June, 2008 has a link to Wikis in Plain English. I plan to use this clip to help the teachers with whom I collaborate how important a wiki can be to successful collaboration. 

In addition to my library position, I also fill the role of an integration specialist. The goal of our staff is to integrate visual arts into what is happening in the classroom. The emphasis this year has been literature and science. I have found that although classroom  teachers welcome specialists into their classrooms, scheduling the time to plan is difficult to come by. I believe that creating a collaborative wiki for each group of teachers (specialists and special educators included) will result in better prepared teachers and a more successful integrated lesson for the students.