I found the Scootle website very interesting and will explore it further to find resources to use in my classroom. Scootle stands for Schools Online Teaching and Learning Environment. It provides access to a wide range of digital curriculum resources. It allows you to to set up collaborative workspaces that are secure and easy to access using digital interactive learning objects. It would be great to use this tool schoolwide, but all teachers would have to be inserviced to use it. Scootle also allows you set up learning paths for students and is a great way to organise tasks /workspaces for individualised programs.
Second life allows users to become immersed in a 3D virtual world that can provide and deliver a unique educational setting. It allows you co create, collaborate and exchange with other people near and far in self paced tutorials. Great for older students, but not my kinders.
Social networking is the way to go for the youinger generation. It is a very big part of their social lifes, the older generation no. I can see the benefits of social networking for shy people as it enables creativity, boosts confidence and enables them to represent themselves on line. My concern is with those people who represent themselves falsely and pray on others. Cyber bullying continues to be a major concern. As teachers we need to teach our students to be safe online users with the right skills and tools. With the rise of Web 2 the acceptable use policy/ies needs to be revised. Many of our students are already using Facebook and Twitter at home so it is important that we as teachers are aware of the policies etc and instruct our students accordingly.
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