Final Blog

Some of the key points I found interesting in the elearning clip:
* engaging, enhancing and evolving education
* anything, anywhere, anytime - the use of mobile/portal environments
* developing reflective, responsible learners - using the technology safely
* using technology to share knowledge and expertise and forming local AND global communities
* students learn best when engaged and challenged - what resources and skills to teachers need to enable this
* what needs to CHANGE - strategies/models/curriculum
***Technology merely one tool to obtain learning goals***
It was interesting to see how adding verbs to Blooms Taxonomy could adapt teaching and learning strategies in the classroom.

I guess at the start of the course I was very overwhelmed with what we had to do.  I don't really use any of the 2.0 things in my classroom or at home.  I was surprised at how easy it was to pick up.  I do think that the use of blogs would be a super way to let the students reflect on their own learning and something that I will try in the future.  Also the use of google docs for collaboration of work in group tasks could be a useful tool.  I also like the idea of bookmarking expecially in the form of professional reading.

Place where I left blog on:
address: http://suzieduff.blogspot.com/
module: #1

Overall this is a course I probably needed doing.  I have more skills now to try these in my classroom.  It will a matter of time before I feel extremely confident about using 2.0 tools (by then there will probably be new and improved stuff out there for me to learn!)  I think some of the things covered in this course even the students wouldn't know about (except facebook and itunes of course).  The major factor is time - to become better equipped and realise ways to use in the classroom.