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Technically, we have completed the first official week of school. I have introduced a new Web 2.o feature for our classroom environment, Class Chatter Live.

I chose to incorporate Class Chatter Live to encourage collaboration and provide an engaging and meaningful learning experience for all students.

The very nature of student work will look and feel different this year. Students will be participating in online classroom assignments and homework. Students will have the opportunity to display their work. Students will have the opportunity to view other students’ work. But the best feature is the prompt feedback from others and myself. This larger participative audience will create a more collaborative, educational conversation where students’ experiences become more authentic.

Class Chatter Live simulates real life experience where the students’ ideas are no longer subject to “just” the teacher’s feedback. They are interacting with their peers, while getting immediate authentic feedback. They will be involved in more discovery, exploration and clarification in their learning than ever before. We will gradually go forward toward this student-to-student collaboration but at this point, they are trying to get use to this way of learning and submitting assignments.

Class Chatter Live is an exciting technology that I hope inspires students to reach new levels of creativity and ability, faster than ever before.

If you are having technical difficulties, your adolescent has been informed of their assignment well before the due date. I have encouraged them to do the assignment as soon as possible so that there are no worries. Students who do not have access to the Internet are expected to make prior arrangements with me to get the printed assignment and they must make arrangements with me to turn in a written assignment.

I hope the students come to enjoy this experience as much as I will!