Saturday 16 February 2013

Module 1

Wow, I'm up and running with Blogger!

I'm Sarah and I teach Year 5 at a Catholic primary school in Melbourne.  I also manage our iPads and am interested in how I can further use technology with students in purposeful and creative ways.

Activity 2 provides so many links for Web 2.0 tools to explore.  I have heard of/currently use some these tools but am looking forward to searching further afield and more importantly learning about how I can use these effectively in the classroom.  A question that already comes to mind centers around the issue of age limits.  I know that Prezi for example is for 18 years and over, so I can use it to produce cool presentations but as I teach in a Primary school, it is not a tool I could encourage my students to use themselves.  I'm wondering if many of the other tools suggested will have similar terms and conditions.

Activity 3's YouTube video is the clearest and most concise intro to Google Apps I've seen/heard.  Cloud technology really is revolutionary!