Today we were introduced to Moodle, reviewed information about the course and what our weekly requirements will be. In addition, we responded in the discussion forum and created our own blogs. I am excited to be taking this course, particularly at this time. I have taken two other graduate courses this summer (Social Networking and Web 2.0 in the Classroom and Interactive Teaching in the Classroom) and combined with this one here at SPSD, will be using it to retools how and what I teach.
Textbooks quickly become outdated; however, online resources allow us as educators to create rich teaching tools to share with our students an colleagues that are both timely and can create interesting diaglogues. I need to quickly pull together the information from all three of these courses into a usable collection of information before it becomes just another pile of papers on my desk!
One example is about Using Gmail to call phones.
You are overdosing on Web 2.0 this summer! You will be a big help to others in the class with your knowledge and experience. Having the time (it's always about time, isn't it?) to sort through and organize what you have learned will be the challenge.
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