Travel Diaries of a Web 2.0 Newbie

In the “7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners” Thing, I chose “Create your own learning toolbox”, and as I look back over the last twelve weeks, I feel that I have actually managed to do this. Resources such as Google Reader, RSS and delicious have solved real problems I was experiencing prior to the course [...]

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One idea I came up with for a collaborative use of Google Docs was to use it for editing, updating and correcting our Schemes of Work for teaching. These are documents that summarise the day-by-day learning objectives for each course, along with key vocabulary terms, links to useful resources or websites etc. Each year, the [...]

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Sorry about the title – more Monty Python.
I initially was put off by the Classroom 2.0 site – found it too busy and cluttered and there was nowhere obvious for me to start exploring, so I decided to go through the Forums, Groups etc tabs. I found for some, there was not a lot of [...]

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by Brian Switek (http://xkcd.com)
It was the title that hooked me, but then I had a look at this Discovering Biology blog entry and it reminded me of the ability some people have to frame their teaching in such strange, and yet appealing, ways. Obviously dinosaurs aren’t everyone’s thing (I have two small boys who are [...]

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One of my first thoughts when exploring Pageflakes was, “Very nice, but when am I going to need to use this?” I can see how it is much easier to use and more flexible than a webpage, but in my particular situation, a lot of its benefits overlap with our school’s Moodle virtual learning environment [...]

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I’ve used YouTube videos before to introduce or illustrate different parts of my lessons, but quickly got frustrated by slow download speeds or videos that were “no longer available” (I have grown to hate that particular error message with a passion as I have trawled through YouTube’s content). So, finding out about Zamzar has been [...]

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I found exploring podcasts to be a similar experience to exploring blogs i.e. I think that it will take some time to get the flavour of a certain podcast and subscribing to them will be an ongoing process. One thing that concerns me about subscribing to a number of podcasts is that you can mentally [...]

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Mmm. This held only a passing interest for me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not some Fahrenheit 451 book-burning book-hater – there was a time when I could happily while away the hours browsing through bookshop shelves. But the realities of life kick in and two small children now have first call on my time [...]

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Once again I am slapping myself (figuratively) on the forehead for realising what I have been missing out on as I have noticed the strange group of icons (including Delicious) at the bottom of webpages, but never bothering to find out the reason for their presence. Now I know…and I wish I had known before [...]

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Enjoyed this. Enjoyed being able to listen to the session over again; enjoyed being able to do it at my convenience. I chose the session called “Overcoming entropy” by Louise Maine, purely because the title intrigued me. I was pleasantly surprised to find that she covered a lot of the issues that had recently begun [...]

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