Certificate of Emerging Technologies

Web 2.0 and Education

Blogging

• What are your goals for this course? wallwisher.com/VITTA2010

• What is your experience with computers and the internet? Write a blog post about your first experiences with technologies like this. What are your skills and experience with Web 2.0 tools? Consider sharing the ways you may have used some tools previously. Are you just getting around to using them, or are you an avid user? Please provide any relevant links.

Blogging

Wiki for this course:

http://vittaemergingtechnologies.wikispaces.co

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Blogging

Recommended Readings

Mirtschin, A (2008) 20 reasons why students should blog, On an e-journey with

generation Y, Australiahttp://murcha.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/20-

reasons-why-students-should-blog/

Blogging

Recommended Readings

Beldarrain, Y (2006) Distance education: Integrating new technologies to foster student interaction and

collaboration in Distance Education, 27:2 pp. 139-153http://www.dastous.us/edtechadvocate/2.pdf

Duffy, Peter and Bruns, Axel (2006) The Use of Blogs, Wikis and RSS in Education: A Conversation of Possibilities. In Proceedings Online Learning and Teaching Conference 2006,

pages pp. 31-38, Brisbanehttp://eprints.qut.edu.au/5398/1/5398.pdf

PLN (Personal Learning Networks)

• Have there been difficulties and obstacles that have prevented you from using Web 2.0 (or from using specific tools) in your school?

• What is your Personal Learning Network like? Who is in it? What organisations, people and networks do you support and in return support you?

Social bookmarking

• diigo.com• http://diigo.com/profile/vittalearning• Cloud-based information

management service that enables users to collect, highlight, access and share a variety of information, on a variety of devices.

Microblogging

• Twitter• http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.co

m/• http://edupln.ning.com/• http://twitter.com/jomcleay• http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/20

08/09/27/twitter-a-quick-communication-tool/

More on twitter

• http://murcha.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/twitter-share-n-tell/

• http://murcha.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/twitter-a-great-search-engine/

• http://mashable.com/what-is-twitter/

• http://twitter.com/VITTALearning