Teachers are given the choice to have their students’ digital portfolios using either iWeb or WordPress. We organized training on these two applications at different times and made sure teachers were familiar with them. So far most people chose WordPress, but a few tried it and agreed, as a grade to stay with iWeb.
I’m trying to understand why this divergence of opinion and here’s what I think. Personally, wordpress should be the way to go. One of the reasons is simply because it doesn’t cost that much compared to iWeb. If you want to eliminate the cost factor of iWeb, you could host it locally as we do, but you lose the privilege of allowing comments from your audience. The downside of wordpress is that, it can be really slow since you are working online.
As a conclusion, I think I’ll keep observing supporting both sides and try to get them do their best work. We’ll see how it goes.
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EtherpadI have started using etherpad as a communication tool to keep in touch with teachers. We scribble notes to tell each other what we've done or intend to do in technology. It's just like another way of planning with individual teachers, instead of physically going to see them and discuss. It's going w...
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