My intro to edublog
March 8th, 2007 by rbvandijkOver the past week my knowledge of web 2.0 tools has been increasing exponentially. I have been really impressed with some of the tools out there and hope to be able to share a lot of these resources with both the staff of Katmat and others.
I have been particularly impressed with netvibes which I now use as my homepage. The ability to have your rss feeds, all search engines and e mails in one place is very cool.
For those of you wondering about what Web 2.0 is the following you tube gives a bit of an indication of where the net is heading.
The other tool I am really pushing is del.icio.us this bookmark service allows you to share bookmarks with other teachers and thus stop the endless trawling through the internet looking for resources and lesson plans.
Now with all these tools I suppose the real challenge is to think how can they be used to motivate students and improve teaching and learning.
Posted in Web 2.0, web tools | 1 Comment »
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:04 pm
I agree that the web 2.0 tools are the future of education, but you need partners and you need to collaborate. We use del.icio.us and netvibes we also use skrbl the online whiteboard to work through ideas, check out my blog and see if there is anything there that you would like to pick up on, if so mail me and lets get our students collaborating. Long live the revolution!