MODULE 1

Tristan Burg

Science Coordinator

Hennessy Catholic College, Young NSW

It is clear that the world is a better place now my playing around with

• the formatting
• settings of Blogger
• is available for
1. all the digital natives

1. to enjoy.

Here is a picture of a what a blog is all about - well according to blogopreneur.com anyway.

Hmm - makes me wonder if it is about a sharing community or all about the self (and who is that mystery person on the right - I'm a bit suspicious...)

And here is a cool blog picture (from inju on flickr) although I don't think the right hand is being entirely respectful to the left...

Anyway, back to the course.

What do I think about Module 1
(cue the contemplative music clip below)
Basically - I think the Web 2.0 tools are interesting  - some amazing - but like any tool unless they are used effectively they are useless.


What were the highlights of module 1?
Well, these are my thoughts before trying any of the tools :
1) Delicious for the department – to store our links for each topic
2) Evernote might be interesting for personal rather then professional use
3) Google calendar could be good for the school/department for all staff to access (and edit) a 'living' calendar of events, assessments, meetings (extras and in-lieu's...?)
4) Jing will be good for assessment/ICT tutorials for students eg the Access, Excel etc assessment
5) Diigo will be good for sharing links and info with yr 11/12 students – ie for high-level secondary research activities where you want to guide them or make them think about certain content on a webpage.
6) Glogster will probably be much better than PowerPoint for a lot of presentation tasks – PowerPoint can be reserved for spoken (presented?) presentations – ie for teacher or some assessments – but glogster could much better for in-class research, analyse, summarise and communicate activities - I'm very interested in this.

Onward to Module 2!