Module 10 - Learning Communities, Constructing Knowledge Together in Wikis

How can Web 2.0 assist in improving learning outcomes for all students?

By using all the tools shown to me in the Web 2.0 course and through my own technology experiences, I, and we, can help improve the learning outcomes of all studnets. I have seen it for myself withing my own classroom this year! Using blogs, Podcasts, Vodcasts, iTunes and bubbl.us helped the children understand the content better, and there final work samples were stupendous!

By using technology and the internet, studnets respond to the activities and the curriculum in such a way that you cannot achieve with just pen and paper! There these kinds of learners. You can also use the Blooms Digital Taxonomy to enforce the learning and help the children achieve the outcomes stated by the DET and IofT.

I have had a blast doing these courses and my world has been exposed to so many new and interesting things!

Things I plan to use: Blogs, Glogster, iTunes, Google Docs, bubbl.us, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and so many others. I can use all these tools across all the KLA's.

They are AWESOME because the students can relate to these tools because most of them are all ready using them! Sometimes I feel like its us, the teachers, who are behind in using technology and keeping up with the kids!

That's why this course, the Web 2.0 course was so AWESOME, because it helped teach teachers about the endless possibilities out there using web based tools for the children to share their knowledge, be inspired by it and create some amazing work samples in a way not possible 1, 3, 5 or even 10 years ago!

Thanks to all the people who created this Web 2.0 course! It was a great eye opener and much appreciated learning!

Regards

George Bounos

AwEsOmE Georgie

Module 9 - Networks on the web, professional and social

Using networks on the Web to socialise and communciate!

AwEsOmE!

I have beeb a user of Scootle, Facebook and Twitter for many months now and the possibilities are endless. When I did my Edna course I was exposed to the limitless possibilities of social networks, but using them in a professional manner was something new to me!

Scootle leaves you with possibilities to elarn, teach and share collaborative with others. Possibilites are endless. I have been using Scootle at school as well to share videos, images and documentaries, with the children to enforce some of the learning in the classroom.

I am also a huge fan of Twitter and Facebook. You can socialise with your friends and also communciate with peers by posting questions and thoughts and almost getting a instant response. Its so amazing what technology now days has to offer.

The limits are endless!

Networks on the web, both professional and social = aWeSoMe

Module 8 - Managing your flow of information on the Internet

RSS feeds!

one word peepls,

AwEsOmE!

I'm still trying to accomplish loading all my favourite sites and blogs onto my RSS feeds, but when I do, watch out world! So much better than the boring, monotous, repetitive actions of checking each individual sites one at a time, daily, just to see if anything new has happened!

Gotta say, Gen Y love this, and now I'm hooked! Wait a sec, I am Gen Y! Y din't anyone tell me about this a long time ago! My students can probably benefit with this too, using the iPhone and all that jazz will certainly help manage and be posted on twitter better by using RSS feeds!

Anyways peepls, Google Reader and RSS feeds = aWeSoMe

Module 7 - Building Online Communities

So, using del.icio.us sounds like a delicious idea... yes, yes, yes I know! Soooooo unoriginal!
But I do think its a delicious idea!

Social bookmarking and dealing with teachers and students online to share your most precious and tresured bookmarks, instead of going to school and going, Oh FUDGE!, I forgot to save that bookmark to that totally awesome website on my USB and now I can't even do the lesson I wanted to do, and then you get all upset and throw something onto the table and it bounces of and it kinda is coming back towards you and you kinds get smacked in the face and the children all see this happen and you know that you know that they saw you do this!!!!!

Anyways, Social bookmarking, blogs, sharing things and ideas on the web and communicating online by building bridges between people, TOTALLY AWESOME!!!

Peepls,

totally love delicious.... and blogging of course, through my own personal experiences.....

Read Module 2 blog!!!