Current mood:	exhausted
Entry tags:	blog, course, education, geoblogging, geotagging, ict, internet, it wiki, tag, tagging, teaching, vels, web, workshop

towards a collaborative, read-write Internet
To date I have run each year a set of hands on workshops for local teachers.  This year I am going to put together a new workshop on Web2 technologies along with my traditional GameMaker and Moodle workshops. I hope to slip in a mention of the cool free software and teaching strategies around. It will be interesting to see how it goes.

Web2: towards a collaborative, read-write Internet

Organising information on the web can be a source of frustration for many users. This workshop is about the Web2 covering blogs, wikis, podcasts, tagging and other social technologies that might interest primary and secondary teachers.  The changing role of technology in education to collaborate online, new trends and their impact for educators will be explored. We will consider how they can be used in the classroom in a way that is sensitive to how we can best enable students to connect with these new ways of learning and embed ICT skills into their curriculum as required in the VELS.

This workshop will give participants some of the information strategies to understand tagging, using tagging to explore the blogsphere, create and edit their own image tags and even dabble with geoblogging to source information to support classroom teaching. Participants will work to create a collaborative webspace including a blog and a wiki. The workshop will provide some self developed resources and samples of student work. Participants should bring a memory stick including some digital photographs and web addresses that they are happy to share.

Last day of school for this term .. aghh, spent much time cleaning my office to make room for two cool colleages that I will share with..