Chris+Harbeck

Let me introduce myself. I am a Grade 8 Math teacher from Canada. I teach between 120 and 140 math 13 and 14 year old math studnets each year. I was introduced to Web 2.0 a year ago and it changed my petagogy and life.

[|Sargent Park Math Zone] My teacher hub for my 4 math classes. [|873] [|841] [|817] [|816] [|Make it Interesting] is my personal blogsite. [|Student Blog and Wiki Tools] Darren Kuropatwa and I created this wiki for students. It is to help them find and use new tools to express their ideas in blogs and wiki's.

The most powerful aspect of intergrating this technology into your petagogy is to see students work hard on work that previously was mundane and unidimentional. Students work harder when they know there is an audience. Wiki's and blogs provide audience. When a student receive a comment or sees a [|Clustr Map] and realize that the world is watching you have a powerful hook.

I am lucky to know Jeanne. She and I did a project together during the k12online Conference this year. We created a wiki together. We connected and collaberated to create a wiki we are very proud of. This collaberation and the ability to link groups over large distances is a powerful hook to draw out the best in our students.

Jeanne and myself plan are planning a collaberative project in the new year. I am looking forward to its start and to the journey that the students will take us on.