Hi Everyone,
I look forward to working with you all as we take this journey in Web 2.0. I'm a TAS teaching currently in my second year of teaching. I look forward to learning and sharing together.
This first module was a good eyeopener for me. As a young teacher who has grown up using a decent amount of technology I was suprised by the tools that I was not aware of. My new understanding of the range of tools both socially and professionally has opened doors for me and my thinking about tasks. I am suprised by the capacity of iGoogle and additionally how easy it is to setup various components.
Professionally the many tools out there open doors for educational experiences and to create such experiences. As a teacher I fear we often shy away from the social technology students use thinking it is a distraction and unhelpful. I wonder if we simply need to rethink how we can use these various tools that our students are so familiar with and use daily. We can use blogs for sharing student learning and assessment, along with create environments where students can provide feedback to each other. I didn't realise the realm of internet capture and storing options and how this creates options for students to access work in various networks without need of a school drive. The ability to capture tasks on screen as a teacher enables us to develop lessons with links for students and demonstration videos allowing students to work at their own speed. This is great in that it means the teacher need not demonstrate something for the whole class once, and then continue to repeat themselves, but provide the video to allow students to work at their pace, catering for diverse learning needs.
Looking forward to learning lots more!
Amy
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