yeah!!  I received a distinction for this blog assignment, which I am very happy about!  I have made public the 5 critiques and final summary if you wish to read them…

Found the following two videos on teacher tube and thought they were a good simple demonstration as to why teachers should encourage blogging in the classroom.

first video: Blogs in the classroom – making the web meaningful for education

second video: Why let our students blog?

One thing I’m noticing in my researching of current articles about blogging in the education arena is that quite a few articles are out-of-date.  To me, out-of-date means written before the year 2000.  Any older than that I believe the material is starting to be rather dated – I know this is rather harsh of me but with the way technology advances so quickly that what you write today may not really matter tomorrow.

What do you think?

I found Erin’s post interesting.  Teachers 10 years ago would have had an incredibly different experience with technology.  We, today, can talk online with teachers not only throughout Australia but also overseas instantly and communicate about a variety of subjects and have blogs or websites to help motivate other teachers.  The possibilities for guidance, motivation and ideas etc are endless.

my first attempt at podcasting…

laurenpodcast.mp3

Hi – Lauren here….it’s early Monday morning on 4th February 2008 and I’ve just created my new blog – so welcome! This particular comment is just to test the posting function so please bare with me as I test it

catch you later!