What immediately comes to mind when I think about the Web 2.0: overwhelming, well planned, way too much info, eye-opening, exciting, fun…..I could go on and on. Sometimes I enjoyed this course, and sometimes I was completely frustrated. But I ALWAYS learned something new, every single week. I thought that Shelley did an incredible job of organizing the course, creating help videos and making the tasks and expectations clear. I have wonderful colleagues who helped me so that when I got stuck, I got help. About halfway through the course, I was wishing that I had waited until the summer to begin the course. But now, I am glad that I took the course and now I will have the summer to play with all the fun things I’ve learned. in fact, I think I will “audit” the course again and this time, go a bit deeper than I did the first time. I am committed to using what I’ve learned in my teaching and professional career. Thank you to Jose, because if it weren’t for him I would not have taken the course, and thank you to Sarah, who would not let me quit!!! Thank you to Shelley for this course. I truly enjoyed it.
I found Classroom 2.0 much easier to use than Ning Education. Both websites had so much information that it was difficult for me to even begin to know where to go, but I had a bit more luck with Classroom2.0 . I found a nifty thread on Classroom with some Kindergarten teachers and how they are using Web 2.0. I posted it to my del.icio.us page so that I can go back and refer to it. Ning Education was just way too busy for me and it was really wordy and I could not find anything useful for me. That is not to say that there is not anything useful, it was just a difficult site for me to navigate. Regular old Ning was much more user friendly and fun. I typed in several search terms and it was fun to see the groups that were already formed. The funny part was when I clicked to check out the groups, many of them only had 1 member!!! Social networking is one of those things that you could literally spend hours at a time exploring. And I will, once I have more time………
Pageflakes was overwhelming. It may well be that I am exhausted after a full day of teaching and caring for three kids. Or, it could be that my eyes are beginning to blur because it is way past my bedtime. I believe; however, that Pageflakes is overwhelming because we have taken in so much information in such a little time that it is hard for me to remember (much less differentiate) between one “thing” from another. It was helpful to have the K12learning20 template to begin with, but I had trouble adding pages and then figuring out how to get the info onto those pages. I am also unsure about when or why I would want to make this page available to the public. One possible Pageflakes use: sometimes the kids want to use the computer and there are some online games that are great for them to play. Maybe I could create a Pageflakes page for them to utilize that quickly links them to the sites that I’d like them to use. to I am really interested in how others would use Pageflakes with early elementary students, if at all. My Pageflakes page continues to be a work in progress.
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