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Hi all,
if you're curerntly involved or have previously done thwe WEB 2.0 for teachers, share your comments and teaching ideas. I'm interested in how people have utilised this course in the classroom and how current participants are enjoying the course.
Cheers
Rachel
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Finally I'm working through WEB 2.0 again. I need to create a gadget for igoogle! Has anyone done this? Any ideas, something creative or photo based would be good?
ReplyDeleteRachel, don't worry about creating the gadget; awareness of the possibilities is the most important aspect here.
ReplyDeleteFantastic.
ReplyDeleteI really feel - that in the classroom - the idea of creating gagetrs is really an IST project, not so much for general classroom activities, it is really a specific area of skill. Many of the other tools, however, are great. There are so many teaching resources available on WEB 2.0, that go beyond the idea of twitter etc... it really takes some time and trial to decide what you want to use. We could almost develop a new subject and syllabus that is all about WEB 2.0 and eduscating students how to use it effectively and responsibly.
I'm currently developing an iLE@RN project (along with Michael Croucher) for Yr10 Photography and Media in school. The possibilities of not just creating films and animations, but what we can do with them and how to share them are becoming very exciting for the students. Keeping them off YouTube, "looking for ideas" is, however a challenge. Sometimes to much inspiration boggles the mind for a single direction and idea.
Rachel
ReplyDeleteYour thoughts about choice and how much there is out there. I found exactly this and that Web 2.0 gous far beyond what this course covers. I have over the last few weeks been trying some of these applciations and the boys have been really engaged and doing some at home. Most of the applications cater for all levels and to see some of the kids that struggle in the normal class environment be engaged and create something is gret to see as a teacher. The only issue is the on-going issue that occurs is the reliance and spped of the connection. Keep going -you will enjoy most of the modules and like me be enthused to try things out.
Thanks Michael,
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to introduce this in both Yr10 PDM, as a discussion tool, ideas and peer coaching to enable the students to help each other in the development of their short films and animations. This will also tie in erally nicely with the iLE@RN project. I think also with year9 food technology, they can discuss cooking pracs, successes and favourites as far as recipes and experiments go.
Oh Rachel, can you believe it? I'm actually online! Funny that I now see you too had problems with the gadget... I thought maybe I was the only one who struggled with that. I eventually got a link or two to work on that. It was a matter of cutting and pasting the appropriate URL. The iGoogle is very useful particularly to have a daily prayer link. Jokes of the day definitely assist though and I think with some of my year ten classes that could be a really possible/rewarding way to end the lesson. I think our boys would respond quite well to that.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your holidays!