Forever Learning
It amazes me that there is so much out there to learn. Just when you think that you are just getting organised and that it is starting to make sense to you and you are living a nice, connected life, something comes along to shake you out of your complacency. I had one of those moments this morning when I read a post on David Warlick’s excellent 2 cents worth blog. The article, Stepping Back to the Future was about some workshop topics that he had not done for a while. In them he mentioned using Google Blog search to locate and select experts in a given field, and to use BlogPulse to map the frequency of specific conversations. As I am currently doing some workshops on using web 2.0 tools for Hong Kong teachers, I immediately accessed both of these tools and was amazed at how easy they are to use and how incredibly useful they are. For example, I used Google Blog to locate some topics on Hong Kong education and see if anyone else in the blogosphere was also experiencing frustrations with trying to get school/parents/community to look beyond the almighty exam preparation that goes on here. Lo and Behold I found Bryan Berry’s comments Improve Test Scores? Forget OLPC, Just Teach to the Test! and almost shouted alelehuia brother out loud!
I then went to BlogPulse to see what was happening in the IWB world and immediately found a post Freezeray.com - clicky-clicky! from Steve, who teaches at Bandung International School. He has shared some great resources here which I will try to pass onto my community. Additionally, I located Jo McLeay’s Blog which had some great refective comments that I can immediately use with teachers in workshops this week.
What a great world of information for the receptive learner!
Filed under: Ideas for Great Lessons | Tagged: blogging, learning, web2.0
