Reflections

I finally understand wiki's and RSS feeds. By creating my blog lines account, I can keep up with sites that I normally have to check everyday.

This has affected my Lifelong learning goals by reminding me why I went back to school in the first place. I also caused me to think about what lifelong learning really means. It means that we should always do our best to keep up with all new technology and beliefs about education. We have to know our students and to know them we must understand the world that they live in.

I think that if I were not already a member of Myspace, some of the toys and tools we worked with would have surprised me. I did enjoy the videos that went along with discovery exercises. They were really cute and broke things down. I especially liked the one about the social bookmarks. I did not understand what they were until this class either.

Other than giving us prizes for completing the Things (like the mP3 players on the learning 2.1 site LOL), I'm not sure that there is anything that you could do to improve the program. However, it would be a great idea for a class of its own, WEB 2.0 101? :)

It will no doubt influence my teaching. I plan to use the podcasts that I found for my students that have trouble with various concepts. They are excellent for that. I definitely hope that I can spend more time exploring these tools. I think that if this was a class of it's own, students could have that luxury. There would be more time to explore the 23 or more things.

I have subscribed to the blog created by Orli Yakuel one of the founders of Goto WEB2.0. If this link does not open up to Orli's blog, then go tot the bottom of the got to web 2.0 site and click on about us. This will take you to pictures of the founders. Click on Orli's link. This way I can keep up with any new tools or sites that are added without having to scan the directory every time.

I will definitely share this with my administrator and other colleagues. Sometime seeing someone else exited about something really gets you going. I try to be as positive and helpful as I can in my day to day teaching.