I'm extremely grateful to the Inner West Region of the Catholic Education Office (CEO) for granting me access to their course entitled Web 2.0 for CEO Sydney Teachers.
The course is presented in 10-modules that demonstrate the power of Web 2.0 online tools for the classroom. For me I hope to consolidate my knowledge of appropriate Web 2.0 technologies for contemporary learning. In my classes we have already experimented with tools like wikis, blogs, and Google docs. Services like YouTube, Flickr, and Delicious and the like. Students have podcasted and vodcasted.
The questions that I hope to explore extend to for what purpose have I had the students undertake these tasks, have they been done well and have the students benefited from these endeavours.
Module 1 Web 2.0 and personalising your Web space is now complete. I've benefited already in a number of ways:
a) the New Tools Workshop is a great site that compiles an extensive list of Web2.0 tools. I found the site to nicely compliment the resources list at Jane Hart's Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies and Michelle Dodd's Access Ability Programs,
b) password management is not a strength, but I now have a scaffold that will be the basis of a password protected vault in a newly created OneNote page,
c) having re-tried iGoogle, I remain content with my Pageflake that has been evolving over several years. There are three public flakes based around general news and web page tools, Web2.0 and Educational Technology and finally Science news feeds.
Hi Gary, as always I am very impressed by your work. Your posts are all very thorough and great for new ideas and resources. For example, I had never heard of Pageflake. What would you say are the advantages of Pageflake over iGoogle? Can you see a way to use iGoogle or Pageflake in the classroom? I am a bit scared that students would find it even harder to focus with the overload of information on one page.
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