What is Web 2.0?? That is the question....

It is essentially an increasing range of software that supports a variety of technologies for open and collaborative communication, learning and creativity.

It requires:

1. a platform
2. social networking
3. read/write web
4. social software
5. gathering and sorting

Difference between WEB 1.0 and WEB 2.0

Web 1.0
Personal Websites
Britannica Online
Content Management Systems
Directories (Taxonomy)
Screen Scraping

Web 1.0 stays still, is static.

Web 2.0
Blogs
Wikipedia
Wikis
Tagging ("Folksonomy")
Web Services

Web 2.0 is constantly changing and improving, and is always getting updated. It is in a constant state of development.

NETWORKED LEARNING

WEB 1.0 is getting information from the web.

WEB 2.0 is constructing knowledge collaboratively on the web.

Web 2.0 is "Putting the 'We' in Web"
"...the Living Web"

--Newsweek 4/3/2006

NSW Institute of Teachers

The Institute of Teachers supports quality teaching in all NSW schools. Its charter is to advance the status and standing of the teaching profession.

This website is an important resource, especially for me as a soon to be graduate teacher, as it gives you an outline of the elements expected of me for when i first start out in the teaching profession. These are:

1. Teachers know their subject content and how to teach that content to their students.
2. Teachers know their students and how they learn
3. Teachers plan, assess and report for effective learning
4. Teachers communicate effectively with their students
5. Teachers create and maintain safe and challenging learning environments through the use of classroom management skills
6. Teachers continually improve their professional knowledge and practice
7. Teachers are actively engaged members of their profession and the wider community

'Graduate teachers are beginning their teaching career in NSW. They have undertaken an approved program of teacher preparation and possess the requisite knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to plan for and manage successful learning.
These teachers are equipped to engage in and negotiate a process of ongoing professional learning. They identify their development needs and seek advice and support from colleagues. They have high expectations both of themselves as professional learners and for the learning of their students. Their commitment to students and student learning is reflected in their desire to support students’ achievement of the highest possible education outcomes.
They have the commitment, enthusiasm and interpersonal skills to assume a professional role within schools and their broader communities and to contribute to the operations of a school as a whole.'

http://www.nswteachers.nsw.edu.au/Main-Professional-Teaching-Standards.html

Critical Reflection on the success of the wiki

Creating and using the wiki as a class was a new experience for me. In the beginning I had a very basic and vague idea of what a wiki was, but now I have an increased knowledge about it and will continue to work towards a developed understanding.

Collaborating users for the wiki was fairly easy - I became the administrator user who created the wiki through Google, and all we had to do was add every student's email. All students were then able to access the Wiki through their Google account which they created for their blog.
Problems started to occur once we all started to access the wiki at once and make additions.The site from which we were creating a wiki, only allowed a certain number of collaborators to make additions at the one time, and we had more students in the class than this maximum number, so when we were trying to work on the wiki as a class, not all students were able to get on. This sometime caused students to be left with nothing to do.
Another problem we faced was sometimes we found difficulties in publishing. When another collaborator made changes while you were editing of trying to publish your additions, sometimes the wiki wouldn't register it and the editing you had made may have been deleted. This caused a somewhat delay in getting information published as part of the lesson task.
With that said, it was quite fun to be working on an online project as a class, with all of us having the ability to make contributions. We were laughing, joking, and it was a generally fun experience trying to figure out how to operate the wiki.

Multiple Intelligences Online Games

http://www.surfaquarium.com/mi/intelligences.htm

This site links to a wide range of online games and activities to suit all the different learning styles. A perfect way to integrate ICT and multiple intelligences in teaching!

An online game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flash/wordmaster/

This is a fun spelling game...perfect for English!