Web 2.0 Tools in Your Classroom
This kind of sums up this class, I think. From slideshare......
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
A Blog worth checking out
There is a blog that you web 2.0 participants may be interested in. It is http://123elearning.blogspot.com/. Please take a minute to check it out..I added it to my bloglines, after I found out about it from another blog that I follow.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
What if?
The embedded video entitled "What if?" is from a site called "grown up digital". I saw it on a blog that I am following...thought it was interesting.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Thing 23a
I titled this Thing 23a because there may be so much more to add after tonight. I whole 23 things class now behind me, I find myself with so many ideas and questions that my head is swimming. Attending the MACUL conference this year just solidified everything that I had learned through this class as well as what I have learned by "just playing". So many people as me "How did you get so good at computers?" Aside from my dad being an electrical engineer and therefore always interested in the latest technology, I learned most of my computer skills by just playing. The hardest part for me is to "walk away" from my PC and do the things that need to be done...does someone beside me hear my lonely vacuum calling?
The personal and professional use of web 2.0 is not a problem for me. My biggest challenge is pedagogically. I struggle how to get my colleauges to recognize that the use of technology is not "more to do", merely a new way to do what they already do. Once you get used to it, it's actually less work! The other challenge is that everyone I work with is at a different evolutionary place in their "tech life". It seems pretty universal that my younger colleagues are much more adept than the "senior staff". As a senior member myself, I know that we may be at a disadvantage growing up with dial phones that didn't move with you, and computers that took up an entire room, but it is possible to keep up with technological changes. Not easy, but possible.
The personal and professional use of web 2.0 is not a problem for me. My biggest challenge is pedagogically. I struggle how to get my colleauges to recognize that the use of technology is not "more to do", merely a new way to do what they already do. Once you get used to it, it's actually less work! The other challenge is that everyone I work with is at a different evolutionary place in their "tech life". It seems pretty universal that my younger colleagues are much more adept than the "senior staff". As a senior member myself, I know that we may be at a disadvantage growing up with dial phones that didn't move with you, and computers that took up an entire room, but it is possible to keep up with technological changes. Not easy, but possible.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Twitter for Teachers
Reading Jim's blog entry about Twitter in the classroom, I was reminded of a web 2.0 presentation I saw at MACUL. Steve Dembo was the presenter and you can check out his PREZI presentation at http://prezi.com/19654/ One of the presentations is about edmodo, or "What if twitter had been invented by a teacher?" Check out edmodo by going to http://www.edmodo.com/ If you have time, check out the other links in Steve's presentation. His session was worth the whole conference for me. (Although I had already heard of Bloglines and Delicious-thanks to this class!)
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