Friday, February 6, 2009

What I hope to get out of this course

I know I am going to get a lot of information about Web 2.0 tools, and I'm really looking forward to that. But what I'd like just as much to get out of this course is the way to use these tools in a class such that it doesn't become the curriculum, but rather helps learn the curriculum. In my case the "curriculum" is ESL, but in reality it is whatever content I support and choose to teach to help students develop their English.

Regarding specific tools I saw on the Wiki-

I would like to learn the basics about:

Twitter
Voicethread
Google for Educators
Facilitating global collaboration (connecting students to others around the world)

I know something about and would like to learn some more about:

Delicious
SmartBoards
Effective search techniques
Flickr
RSS & iGoogle
Word/Tag Clouds (Wordle)

I know a good deal about and would like to learn to maximize the potential of:

Linking
Moodle (PantherNet)
YouTube
Wikis

As I mentioned above, the emphasis is on using it with students and for the class objectives.

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