This blog is to help me organise my thoughts about using Web 2 tools in my classroom. It will describes my small steps in learning more about Blogger, WordPress and Edublogs. It will be the starting point for me to begin social networking.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Getting Blogged (bogged) Down??
Good evening everyone.
Sorry that I have not posted for awhile. I have been going through a Luddite stage of wondering if my life is better without technology or without as much of it. Here is what got me started thinking!
I recently flew from Melbourne to Louisville, Ky to see my Dad who is 90 years old. As I returned home to Melbourne, I became increasingly irritated by the people using mobile phones around me. Either they just talked a load of codswallop or they would still be talking as the pilot said we would not take off until all the passengers had turned off their phones.
At first I thought it was because I was tired. But then I realised that I was tired of feeling pressured to read and comment on a whole bunch of blogs that did not seem to give me any benefits that I could see.
Would I rather be playing classical guitar? For now the answer is yes.
There is a bit of a let down from being online with a wonderful group of students one night a week last year using Skype and Elluminate and a few other technologies as we studied Online Learning and Education and Flexible Learning Environments as part of a course at the University of Melbourne. There was not only a feeling of connectedness, but a feeling of achievement as well.
Maybe that sense of enthusiasm and motivation is what is different.
More to come about this.
Right now I am using Wordpress and Blogger with my classes with the students set as contributors and also trying to get them to comment in each others blogs as part of a teamwork approach. It has its ups and downs.
If any one wished to add a comment for them, it would be appreciated. One class is Year 11 Business and another is Year 11 Multimedia.
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