THE JOURNEY BEGINS

“The computer is more than a machine that gets us online, it is a

studio, stage, and community”. Marco Torres.

Web 2.0 – Week 1Personal Learning

Network for Victorian Schools

Blogs

Feedly

Firefox

Google Chrome

Our goals

“There is a lot that I don’tunderstand.” Jo

“Oh my goodness, whereto begin?” Lesla

Week 2 – Communication Tools

TwitterTweetdec

k

#Hashtags

TwapperKeeper

Ning

Skype

“Love the Ning, not so sure about twitter.” Jo

“Wow, this is a whole new world. I think the Ning is exciting.” Lesla

Week 3 – Professional Learning

TED talksFUSEState Library of VictoriaTL Virtual CafeFirst elluminate sessionAnne MirtschinInteraction with students and

teachers in other countries

“My first experience with an elluminate session. Great way of becoming involved. Love TED talks” Lesla

“ The TED talks are so inspiring, will be checking these out regularly!” Jo

Week 4 – Learning & teaching tools

Google docs

Google earth

Google sites

Google for Educators Flickr

Gliffy

bubbl.us

Essay Map

Wallwisher

Publicity

Accelerated Reader

Evernote

“I have set up Wallwisher to use in publicity. No more sticky notes. So many sites to investigate .” Lesla

“ So many great tools that I knew nothing about until now.” Jo

Montage of cupcake photos found using

Creative Commons

Week 5 – Digital Citizenship

Jenny LucaCreative CommonsManaging online risksCyber BullyingTim KitchenBudd:eSmart Copying

eSafetyCopyright Agency LimitedSafer internetThinkUKnowCyber(smart)Richard ByrneWizard of Apps

“Digital citizenship is such an important part of our lives today. This week’s sites are very informative.” Lesla

“We need to teach our students to be responsible digital citizens.” Jo

Week 6 – Learning & teaching tools 2

Digital Learnin

g Objects in FUSE

edmodo

Teacher

TubeYouTub

eTeachersTV

Shelfari

“Help! Brain overload. FUSE looks really useful and Shelfari is a lovely way of keeping track of books and networking.” Lesla

“FUSE has some absolutely brilliant resources, will definitely recommend this to teaching staff.” Jo

Week 7 – Research ToolsErgo

Diigo

Google Search Posters

Collection Resource Guides

Library Press

Display

Google Custom Search Engine

Google News

Timeline

Jon Herford

“Diigo well worth joining. Many great sites to investigate further.” Lesla

“Lots of terrific research tools and sites to discover this week.” Jo

Week 8 –Presentation Tools 1 Animoto

Glogster

Voicethread

ToonDooWikispaces

Wordle

Tagxedo

“Oh this is such a fun week. Tagxedo intrigues me.” Lesla

“How much fun is ToonDoo – check out the next slide.” Jo

ToonDoo

This pretty much sums up our reactions to the SLAV Web 2.0 course!!!

Vic PLN Wordle

Week 9 – Pedagogy or Technology

Anna Maria

Menezes

Life Feas

t blog

It’s not about

the tools, it’s about

skills.

Sylvia Tolisano

Jenny Sargeant

Whatedsaid

Technology shouldn’t drive, it should

empower!

“ Technology shouldn’t drive, it should empower.” I couldn’t agree more.” Lesla

“We shouldn’t use technology just for the sake of it, it needs to be relevant to the lesson.” Jo

Week 10 – Gaming for learningJane

McGonigal

TED talk

Social Gaming

Computer

GamesVideo

Games

Wii for learning

Nintendo DS

“This week has opened my eyes and mind. I was so sceptical about gaming. A great tool to use educationally.” Lesla

“I love the idea of games in the classroom, what a great way to engage our digital students.” Jo

Week 11 – Presentation Tools 2

SlideshareScribd

StorybirdGoogle Lit

Trips

“Storybird is a winner and I love Google Lit Trips . It could be used by many faculties.” Lesla

“These are all great tools, I particularly like Storybird – a great resource for primary teachers.” Jo

Week 12 – Digital Story

Lesla’s storyI was quite apprehensive about starting the

Web 2.0 course. After all, my computer skills are not great, I’m not a teacher,

would I be able to understand anything? The Personal Learning Network has been

the start of a wonderful journey of learning and sharing. As the weeks went

by, I found that I was progressing and becoming more inquisitive and more

confident. I have found the networking to be invaluable. The sharing of knowledge

is wonderful. My role is changing and evolving and I now feel that I have better

skills to be able to meet these new challenges. I would like to thank Judith

and all the mentors for your endless support.

Jo’s storyI had thought that I was reasonably well

informed about the resources that were on the web. After all I have four children

and have been involved in their discovery of new technology. How wrong I was. There is so much to discover and

being part of a Personal Learning Network is a great way to start. I have enjoyed every part of this journey and fully intend to use what I have learnt whenever and wherever possible. My

role over the next few years will involve a lot more interaction with both

students and teachers and hopefully I can share my knowledge with them and they can share their knowledge with me.

THE JOURNEY NEVER ENDS....