Tuesday, March 27, 2007

web quests- the good the bad and the boring!!

the webquests that we looked at on the powerpoint presentation, were intresting. the difference in them were so prevelant it was easy to see which ones were better. the webquest on the tiger cubs was very boring...no student would look at it! i was even bored before i read any of the infomation!. this may have been because it wasn't creative it had a whole heap of infomation all bunched together and there was one picture and that was it. it wasn't inviting so the student would lose intrest very quickly!
the second webquest on the murder mystery was really good. it was interactive, lots of visuals, and it gave the students a specific task. what was even better about the webquest was that it could be used for different subjects, biology, buisness, law, forensic sciences! thats what a web quest should be!, inviting, intresting, stimulating and used over a variety of subjects!!

online games for students.

trying to get a game on to my blog... and i thought the music was hard :)

actually its not that hard.

for students how are naturalistic this game is great! zoo games allows students to create their own animals and make an entire zoo. its fun, intercative and intresting...perfect game for kids who love to create things.

Monday, March 26, 2007

a scary Al Gore!!

Podcast or Radio?

A podcast you can download and play over and over again. listening to it whenever and wherever you want. you can play the same thing over and over where as the radio plays something once and thats it!
you download files, images, radio highlights, news to your computer and then transfer to your IPOD!

SO HOW DO WE CREATE A PODCAST???

when finding out how to podcast, GOOGLE it!

this is a good place to start on making a podcast!!
podcast tutorials explains what a podcast is, and how to create your own!

happy podcasting:)

to blog or to wiki????

the difference between our blog and our wiki!!

we can control our blog and we can decide who and what appears on it. we are able to delete comments and we know who is posting them. however on the wiki the postings are anonymous. we cant tell who is writing and posting on our wiki therefore anyone could be writing anything!.

on the wiki, people can change our work, add to it, or delete what we have written however on our blogs they can only post a comment not change our work.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

contents of a small wiki!!

http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Dreikurs,_Rudolf (use this site for an example of the basic wiki) (this wiki is a private wiki)

Contents[hide]
1 Descriptions, definitions, synonyms, organizer terms, types of
2 Application in classrooms and similar settings
3 Evidence of effectiveness
4 Critics and their rationale
5 More Books by Dreikurs
6 Alternative explanations due to diversity considerations
7 Signed "life experiences," testimonies and stories
8 References and other links of interest

wkik? a collabroation of people working together on the same document. it can be frustrating to use and a hazzard as it is free and anyone can use it at any one time. it is a document put together by a group of individuals not through email but through a document on a serve

example of e-learning 2.0 (collaborating with others in the creation and construction of knowledge) using wikis
example of web 2.0 ( collaborating with other people to create new knowledge) using wikis

task:
1. name of wiki?
2. aims, goals, objectives and outcomes
3. history and members of this group who are contributing (descriptive infomation)
4. how have we learnt? key elements of our experience that have worked well or that we would improve on
5.what have we learnt about online learning
6. what resources have we found that are really good
7. how would you structure an E-learning group
8. how would you assess an E-learning group
9. Rubric for a course using e-learning 2.0 approaches