Thing “23″ Voicethread
Posted by arlieosborne on March 26, 2009
K12 learning 2.0: Tools for 21st Century Teaching & Learning
THING “Twenty-Three” (Session Ten)
Optional Task: Overall Course Experience . . . (Thoughts posted in 2 slides using Voicethread)
There are definitely a multitude of tools that are available to us in education. In this Web 2.0 course, I have enjoyed exploring many of the tools and some I stumbled upon along the way. We are definitely living in a digial world. Students are growing up in a digital world and that is they their primary way of learning new things. If you try to instruct them in non-digital ways, it seems boring to them and they don’t seem to get as much from the instruction.
Some of the tools I especially liked were the Google Reader, Blog creation, Delicious Bookmarking and Pageflakes. I enjoy collecting things in my reader from topics I am interested in reading. It seems like everyone has a blog site these days with literally thousands out there to be viewed. Mine is just another one in the sea of blogs. By posting my thoughts in one place I can see value in others seeing this information in one place. One item that is very nice is the ability for everyone to share their favorite bookmarks. In addition, for no other reason, I can have my bookmarks available to me at any location or computer which is nice. Pageflakes is probably the one tool I hadn’t heard about until this class. I can see value in this tool by organizing it in a way to bring together feed, blogs, etc. into one place.
