Module 7 Building online Communities

Created a delicious account but had difficulty adding bookmarks to the tool bar.

Module 6 Creating and communicating on line

I love mind maps and being a visual learner they are a simple way of expressing interdependence. I tried to do a family tree first as that was a base from which this concept was relevant to me.
Created a glogster account, which was fun making the wall and adding bits and pieces. Liked the idea that you can create a whole class set of accounts. It would be good for children to write reflections and share ideas and experiences on this page.

Module 5 Podcasts and Vodcasts

Podcasts are probably more familiar to me as I listen to 702 radio quite a bit. It is great to review something at your own time if you have missed it. Radio National is a good site especially to learn about podcasts. ABC and CSIRO have some good educational programs that would be beneficial for teaching in the classroom. For the infants classes the Audio stories for children are another good resource, especially as we are trying to enhance their listening skills.

Less familiar is vodcast, but it is just a podcast with a video.

iTunes are a brilliant invention. We recently had an assembly where I needed a hymn from long ago, which no one seemed to have any more. I searched on iTunes and didn't locate it but found it on YouTube. It really enhanced the performance as I was going to have to sing without music. We have used it also embedded them in our flipcharts for religion and HSIE.

Module 4 Flickr

That has been fun mastering flickr and adding in several photos. I found the videos seemed to take a long time and haven't had much success. Perhaps I was just a little too impatient.

I could see that this resource would be useful when sharing with family and friends, especially overseas.

This would also be useful with my kinder class when we did a unit on Steve Parish and asked them to contribute a photo of their own in this vein. Here it could be viewed by the entire grade.

MODULE 3

This concept of collaborative sharing and editing of documents will be the next big thing. I can see many valuable uses for this at school and play. I wish this was available to the Athletics committee I belong, as it would have eliminated several hundred emails where everyone would add there "valuable" opinion recopied in its entirety each time.

As Amanda said about the report writing use of google docs, it would help not only stage Maths/English but where I job share too. We have gone to many lengths over the years each careful to add our comments so not to eliminate the others changes. This would really be good for us as we could collaborate our ideas at home but even together. Over the years our ideas and opinions on our children have been so alligned that this would be reassuring to see that backed up on a document as we can't always confer on each detail.

And anything that reduces meeting times-must be good!
I'd love to see it in use in an older class in all its glory.

Until the next exciting adventure.
Cheers Janine

MODULE 3

Module 2

Having not really read many blogs, a blog novice, I feel a little strange writing my reflections. Unaccustomed to public blogging -it feels a little uncomfortable, like wearing that new outfit that you were sure was a stunner in the shop changeroom but now feels a little skimp!

I suppose it's cheaper than therapy!
Yes, you can see I navigated module 2 to this point and I should not have had that second glass of red before writing this blog entry.