Recently our social studies department at Mountain Ridge Junior High designed a website. We used google sites for the template and so far we have created a google calendar, created a blog, a file cabinet, and different pages for the different social studies classes we teach. On the calendar we mark the dates and times of our collaboration meetings and create an agenda in the details of the event. On the blog we keep minutes of what we are doing in our collaboration meetings. In the file cabinet we upload lesson plans and other materials we want to share within our department. With the class specific pages we are working on posting our learning targets, goals, objectives, policies, and interventions.
During the week we know we can easily go to our department website to access what we need, whether that is a reminder about the upcoming meeting or a file we had uploaded previously. We have invited the administration at our school to view our website so they can see what we are up to. It is also a way for us to be accountable to both the administration and to the parents of the kids we teach.
I think this is a great use of web 2.0. We love it in our department and it has helped with our collaboration and brought us together more as a team. If you want to visit our website the link is http://sites.google.com/site/mrjhsocialstudies. What do you think? Any ideas on what would make the website better?
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