module 5

We have had an inservice day on podcasts/vodcasts be our elearning coordinator and how it can be used within our teaching/learning as tools to enhance student understanding and learning experiences. Podcasts and vodcasts are a great idea that students enjoy creating. Recording what they have learnt orally and by video and uploading it to the internet is a good strategy in todays highly technological society. They also enjoy listening and learning from podcasts and watching vodcasts already available on the world wide web. Itunes and youtube are websites that provide a variety of these. I think we just have to be careful to ensure that we relate their learning experiences to the syllabus when using these strategies

module 4

I found Flickr very easy to use and believe it can have many advantage as a tool in the classroom and for project/group work as photo’s can be shared. I enjoyed the make stuff section and thought there were some great creative ideas for making gifts. After viewing the video on creative commons i have developed a deaper understanding of copyright and its importance. I believe it is important to educate both staff and students on copyright as to better avoid copyright breaches, so little people seem to understand how serious it is.

module 3

After viewing the google docs video it was immediately obvious that there are many advantages to using google docs as a learning and sharing tool amongst students working on a document together or when writing a group report. I found the tutorial on Atomic learning very useful and easy to follow. Setting up a shared document was easy and the features were easy to use and pretty much the same a normal document editor only that it had the benefit of been accessed online and edited by several people.

module 2

This module allowed me to discover the advantages using blogging as a learning tool. Blogging provides opportunities to share your learning and ideas with others and provides you with ways to manage who views your blog and gives others opportunity to comment. I also joined the course wiki in order to share my entries with others completing web 2.0. I viewed the Australian War Memorial blog. This gave me an insight into how much respect there is for the history of war.