Web 2.0 Discoveries and 'Learning Gems'

[Julie Squires]

I started exploring Web 2.0 quite recently and quickly realised the depth of it as every day brought a new and wonderful discovery. I signed up for everything imaginable so I could experiment and evaluate educational and/or professional usefulness. In my context the most useful tools so far have turned out to be the Google suite of tools, particularly iGoogle and Google Docs. I love the way Google Docs allow me to work on documents online from any computer. I also signed up for Google Apps education and think this has huge potential in schools. In terms of impact in the classroom my favourite discovery has been ClassTools. I made up some popular games about our library using this tool and the children love them! Would love to hear of the tools discovered by others. (I am going to blog about this soon on my Learning Gems blog)

[marcia ryan]

How did your power point presentation go Ange??Would be interested to know how you went about it....Keep me posted.

[Cathy Hainstock]

Well here's a collaborative tool and plain sanity saver that I posted about on OZTL_Net last week that I'm totally in love with -- iBreadcrumbs -- still very new but I've been using it a lot and don't know how we ever lived without it.

When you hit the start button, iBreadcrumbs keeps track of every page you view (like a crumb trail) as you search online and then you can edit, save, share, add and collaborate with your trails. No more searching around for that web-page that had something on it but I forgot to bookmark it problems. There's a short YouTube video about it on the homepage.

I'm doing some personal research at the moment to better understand our alternative curriculum and seeking opportunities for developing it's potential so I'm doing a lot of free-ranging on the internet. It's during these sessions that I truly appreciate iBreadcrumbs potential.
If you do join please consider friending me (cathyinoz), I'd love to hear how others may use this tool.

[Julie Squires]

Just signed up, Cathy. Will check it out and see how useful for me. If only I'd had it when I completed my Masters!