Week 3 - Here comes the technology!

Week 3...... Lets reflect on a few things addressed.

Google Reader.... RSS
Very handy little thing where I can add a number of sites to be followed, helpful for me and my students so that we can keep track of site updates without constantly having to go back to each site google reader is now keeping track of all of the blogs I am following for this task, and as igoogle is my home page google reader is only 1 click away, so much easier. This is also helpful as when I log onto the Uni computers I don't have my handy little laptop with my one million bookmarks of where I am a member, this will help me to keep track of it all online, it seems pretty simple, easy to use for the first time user too.

I'm not sure if it is possible or not but if a class user name and password were set up each class member would be able to use the same reader, I'm sure that there is something more appropriate and I'm sure that it will come up in the next few weeks.... on second thoughts an on going updated blog could be edited to include updated links with comments as to who has updated on these topics.... or there is the good old discussion forums..... how to share these links with my students I wonder..... I shall have to look into it :)

Just some ramblings

Wiki's.....
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Can it be any more basic? I love commoncraft and how they can explain things even to me and I thought I understood most of it. I'm definitely keeping it as a reference for when I can't manage to explain a piece of technology to someone. Definitely a useful tool for students if what you are asking of them is a completely unfamiliar concept.
But back to Wiki's, I made a wiki..... http://zelinaswiki.wikispace.com it's pretty boring right now but with everyone's help it could become something.... not sure what though.

Wiki's can be utilised so easily in the classroom, allowing everyone to be able to access and edit as they need to adding more information from where ever they happen to be. http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com has links to other wikis which have been used for classrooms, interesting to see the different ways they can be used.

That's just about it for this week I think.....