My proposal is to continue working on the two projects that I have already begun:

  • I’m going to develop the student weblog project that I have going with my class.

    • I am curious to explore ways to scale the project so that it can be more accessible to larger groups than one class at a time. Ideally, a student would have an account when they enter a school. Teachers could then include students into their class groups from year to year. This allows the retention of student content over a longer time than one year, and would serve as a writing portfolio for each student.

  • I intend to use del.icio.us in this project to update a linkblog that would provide teachers with the convenience of pointing to internet resources they want their students to use, without having to rewrite and publish html docs.
  • I am going to continue to develop (seed post) articles for the Alaska wiki that I recently began.

    • Specifically, I am going to write a user profile for myself that will serve to demonstrate an easy way to gain entry to the wiki for newcomers. I also need to write help pages, and develop or find a logo.

  • Additionally, I will be using the Alaska wiki to collaborate with Dr. Joan Parker-Webster from the Ed Dept. at UAF on a math/literacy research project that she and I recently discussed.

    • My intention here is to involve her in the wiki in order to familiarize her with it in the context of a collaborative endeavor. My hope is that she might find value in it which could result in other teacher-researchers in her graduate programs becoming aware of the wiki’s potential as a tool and publishing platform for classroom research. This could result in an archive of educational research in Alaska that is constantly available for review and comment by the educational community.

  • I intend to document this work on Borderland under the topic, “teacher research.”