First Week or Two
At the very beginning of this class, I didn't know how to take it. The class didn't have much structure at all. I completely understand why the Professor chose to start the class off that way. It was a great change to the class. One thing that I really liked about starting the class off like that is seeing who would continue to contribute in the class and to see who would not worry about participating in class. I personally like the structure a lot more. I am a very busy person, as a am sure a lot of people are, and I find due dates to be important. There are some days that I have set aside for working on grad school assignments so the structure and the due dates help me to plan what I need to get done during the week.
Beginning and Blogging
At the very beginning of the class, we were told to create a blog. I have never used a blog before so I was looking forward to creating one. The blogging is one of the many things that I like about this class. I like to have a place to express what I think about different assignments and how I feel about them. The blogs are also nice to see how other people in the class feel.
It was nice to have everyone collaborating and sharing the terms that they found important. It was also good to have a common definition for everyone to relate too. It also helped to go back and see what certain words meant if I wasn't sure. During this week, we also were able to define social media/web 2.0 tools. It was very useful to go back through and read the different type of tools that were available on the web. It was useful to see what Web 2.0 tools that most people use.
Second Life was a very different world for me to experience. It was not at all what I was expecting it to be. I believe it would be a great tool to use for socializing. Some of the material/content on Second Life definitely needs to be monitored if children got on there. During the week we explored Second Life, we also looked at Wordles. I have used Wordles before in my classroom but I didn't know that we could insert whole paragraphs into the Wordles to be created.
For information about wikipedia (since it was very recent) you can visit my other blog page.
Overall
Overall, I am really enjoying this class. It does take up a good amount of time to put into the class, but I am really learning so much about Web 2.0 tools. The class is going at a great pace and we are accomplishing and going over a lot of tools to be able to use. I also like how we get to explore the different tools and blog about them. I am enjoying how everyone shares their blogs website so that we are able to go back and read everyones experiences. I am looking forward to see what is coming.
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