One of my goals this summer has been to update my technology skills. I’ve given my website a makeover to make it cross-compatible with most of the browsers in use. I’m using SimpleScripts through my webhost to install some scripts that would be tedious to do myself.
One of the scripts that I have installed is Wordpress. I have no illusions of being a big-time blogger. Most of my strongly held beliefs about education are best kept to myself. What I hope to do is to create a method for posting and responding to what my colleagues call “preambles” and what I would call “writing prompts.”
I have a lot to learn here. I want to be able to set up writing prompts in advance, to be published automatically on a predetermined date – a feature of Wordpress that I will have to figure out. Being able to post them with graphics, and knowing that they will be accessible to students even after they would have been erased from a classroom whiteboard should be a net timesaver for me.