Thank you one and all for your sharing, ideas, honesty, humour and experimentation. I have enjoyed reading the blogs as much as playing with the Web 2.0 tools themselves. Thank you Dione for your encouragement and positive feedback. It has certainly been fun.
One thing was brought home to me quite strongly as I explored and wandered through the many options out their in cyberspace ... change is rapid and as quickly as we learn one aspect of online technology, another pops up to outdo or replace it. But it's really OK. Young people know no other way. It always has been like this for them and always will be. Gee ...email is slow technology for them these days!
As educators we need to have an opportunity like this course to become more familiar with these technologies so that we have some understanding of the world in which our students engage and communicate so comfortably. And the bonus is that we in turn have discovered some gems that we are excited about utilising and integrating into our own stories. Google Reader, The Library Thing and Delicious are just three that come to mind, that were new to me but I now use every day.
I will continue to explore many of the new tools and investigate ways of introducing some of them into the classroom. I am going to start with the teachers at my school, sharing some of my learning but also listening to their take on it all as well. I will certainly be encouraging them to sign up for the July course!
Today we had a full day's inservice on cyber safety which provided plenty of food for thought, especially for me as I consider how and what to present to students in the way of web 2.0 tools.
So this is the beginning of new challenges and further explorations. Bring it on!!
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