Zoho Writer - Wow!

Zoho Writer - Wow!

So I am now doing Task 18 - writing a document using Zoho Writer. I have read the list of features and can see immediately how I might be able to use this web based application in collaboration with my peers. Rather than emailing a document to each other and editing it sending it back and then getting confused about what was edited etc. we can start a document on Zoho writer and edit together in real time.... Wow, like an online phone call... AMAZING!  I am constantly overawed  by the applications and tools that I am finding out about since starting my journey. 

I am definitely going to introduce my fellow classmates to this feature.

And now I am going to publish this post directly to this blog, because I can! lol.

Wiki Wiki - Hawaiian for really fast?

So task 16 and 17 were all about exploring wiki's. I have had some experience using subject specific wiki's at RMIT as part of my studies. I have found them to be limiting (possibly due to my inexperience in the medium) I think that they work better if they are something that people are voluntarily involved with rather than forced to contribute. My most recent experience was in my designing multiliteracies course in which we used the wiki as part of an integrated learning project. I found that I became more familiar with how to add images and documents etc. but I also found that it suffered from a lack of collaboration from other members of the group I was working in. It was not something that we used as our main form of communication, we moved to facebook and facebook became the medium of communicating to each other when we had added something to our wiki.

I could not do task 17 as it was a library specific task for employees of the library, which I am not. But I consider that task done as I have been contributing on the wiki for my Designing Multiliteracies course at Uni.

Blogging about web2.0 and Education

Well I am at Task 15

Rather than explore a few perspectives on library 2.0 I have searched for perspectives on Web2.0 in primary education. 

I discovered the following blogs and websites which have inspired me even further to learn more about web 2.0 and the application of web2.0 tools in the classroom.

Bright ideas is a blog by the Schools Library Association of Victoria which offers ideas and resources for web2.0 applications. I have not fully investigated it but the amount of information available on the blog is phenomenal. I have also bookmarked the SLAV website. I see this as being enormously useful in the future.

Moving at the speed of creativity  is another interesting weblog that discusses technology and its applications to education at a primary school level. I discovered Wesley Fryer when I was searching podcasts on Itunes looking for podcasts on the subject of education. I have enjoyed listening to his presentations and have found him very inspiring whilst easy to relate to. Technology can be intimidating but Wesley makes it sound easy!


Elearn Magazine: Education and Technology in perspective is a website that connects to a blog and discusses elearning. More from an adult online education point of view but very interesting and would be valuable from a professional learning point of view.

AusSLers - Australian Second Life Educators and Researchers is a site that discusses the application of Education within the Virtual world  of Second Life. This is a mind blowing thought - I had a little bit of an explore around the site and discovered that within the Second Life world schools are collaborating under a scheme called skoolaborate. I am extremely interested in the intricacies of this type of learning. How is it workable? It sounds so amazing and the opportunities that could be explored are endless. WOW!


Educational Technology - ICT in Education is a website that offers a free ebook detailing 60 ideas for using web2.0 in the classroom. I am yet to check it out but I have kept the link for future reference. I think it would be an invaluable tool.

As you can see I have been inspired. It is all so overwhelming. How can I become a part of it? I suppose this is just the beginning. By exploring I have become aware of just a hint of what is out there, now I need to go further... find out more.... explore! explore! EXPLORE!