Module 2 of Web 2 Online Blogging

After creating a Twitter account it gives me some new ideas to use in the classroom.  If all the children had twitter accounts linked to mine then I could request reminders, send out ideas for them to help them with their learning as well as post suggested educational web sites or You tube videos that they could view to enhance their learning.  They could also post responses to questions relevant to topics that we are discussing after school hours in case they thought of a response then rather during class time.  It could provide feedback for me to use in reports.

Module 1

I found module 1 very interesting and took down notes about the 25 tools A Tool Box for Learning as I know I won't remember all that I saw.  It was quite overwhelming to see all the ways we can use the web to communicate our ideas both in the classroom as well as professionally and personally.  I found the Blooms Digital Taxonomy interesting and again printed it off to do more in depth reading to help me get my head around the process used in the digital sense..  By taking notes of all the assorted websites suggested for teachers to use will be another task in exploring them.  some will be relevant to my class and some won't.  The Kids love Toontastic but I will introduce other sites to them as I learn how to use them.  There is so much to learn it is mind blowing.

Web 2 Online course

Hello
My name is Carol Williams, I teach at St. Kevin's Primary School in Hampton Park.  I've enrolled in this course and have already found that there is so much to learn and explore.  I do have my own class blog that I used when I travelled overseas to communicate with my class.  I am also using it now to put up information that they are learning for them to respond to.  I am looking forward to learning more about the uses of technology in the class room and teaching my class about them.