My initial reaction to reading about RSS and Aggregators was, "we have to sign up for a what?"
I think this tool is going to make it a lot easier to manage all of this communication. The more we look at things, the more I can see why we have the different methods for communicating online. The wiki seemed unecessary until I read the assignment description for this week. The resources on the Course resource page already will be so useful to me as I plan for my students.
My question: Now that we are using our blogs, will we use the discussion threads in moodle very much? Not used to the format of moodle, I apparently missed out on all of last week's discussion. Well, I read it all, but in my email only, and didn't respond to any of it. Oops. :
(Note: That question was not directed to anyone in particular, but feel free to answer if you'd like. I'll be monitoring the moodle discussion threads anyway.)
So... I'm off to find a website to evaluate.
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Hi Eric,
I hope things will come together even more over time :)
The mix of technologies used in this course are meant to give you experience with some of the new technologies that are popular in the field right now. Hopefully, they also help us to communicate in more effective and efficient ways.
I originally started using blogs to get reading discussions out of the discussion forums. These discussions often resulted in 100+ postings each week, which really taxed both the students and the teacher. I thought that blogs would be a more appropriate space in which to write reflections AND having these reflections public provides a resource to a wider audience (i.e., the world).
I honestly haven't found the right mix for using the Wikis yet. I'm using them as public pages and not as much for collaborative work, which is how they should be used. There will be a chance to do this a little later in the semester.
Good luck.
Dan
HI Eric,
I enjoyed this post. My reaction to the aggregating was the same, and I remembered a cool web site from 1995 that allowed one to create his own daily newspaper. I think it was an early form of what was to come! I tried to set up some feeds to the blog, but I haven't suceeded as yet.
Your question about where discussions might take place is an important one. Dan addressed the issue in his response--and clearly it becomes a challenge for anyone taching as much available technology as possible and encouraging its use in order for the users to truly become "adapted" within a limited period of weeks.
If this class were any bigger, we'd have a real challenge in responding to everyone and everything. As it is, I try to answer at least one other blog each week in addition to the Moodle discussions, and on Wiki I've simly added a page (to which I've not returned to see if it precipitated action), and I add a few links once in awhile (2 I think") Whew!
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