Sunday 7 January 2007

Web 2.0 in the Classroom: Harnessing the Potential; Avoiding the Pitfalls

I am wondering why i am still doing Post Grad. uni papers when i'm sure i swore off them over a year ago!! I guess it is because i was so annoyed about not getting an e-fellowship that i thought i wouldn't jump through any Ministry of Education hoops to get what i wanted i would just go out & do it for myself! The downside of course is that i don't get a whole year paid leave to do it but am spending my summer holidays working & enrolment fees are pretty expensive too. But any investment of time & money on education is well worth it in the long run and it's good to have my brain engaged while i flit between my study, the beach, study, the garden, study...

Here is my last assignment
. An educational scenario looking at the potential & pitfalls of Web 2.0.

"Acknowledgements:

Thanks to Eddie Reisch for challenging me to use exe.editor to create this scenario

Richard Bradley for the cool little people pictures (altered from the originals)

& Graham Wegner for being an influential colleague in my own 'professional learning' social network "

2 comments:

Lynne Crowe said...

Great presentation re Web 2.0 tools. It would be really useful to many schools in NZ. We are currently in our second year of the ministry contract. I'm the facilitator for my school and I am facing an uphill battle in getting teachers to see the worth and then be prepared to put in the time with blogs, wikis etc. It's always great to see what others are doing.

Unknown said...

Thanks for the eXe plug and congrats on a fine looking resource. I'm an eXe developer and it's always good to see that the thing actually works :-)

brent.