Module 10

Great Web 2.0 journey comes to an end...but no, seriously it is just beginning. Lots of good things to say about the course: it's online and free and can be done anywhere and at anytime at your leisure, it is relevant and meaningful and interesting (wow I'm describing what we should be doing as teachers!) I will definitely recommend that teachers at my school give it a go.

Wikis, like blogs, are an excellent way to allow students to create, communicate, present and demonstrate their learnings. They can easily add content and make comments about their work and share it with other people.

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy clearly links the development of thinking skills to appropriate Web 2.0 learning experiences. As a teacher, I can see how to make sure that the students are given tasks which will allow them to develop an increasingly complex set of skills as learners, eventually creating new knowledge and information. Second Life probably fits into all of the hierarchical sections of the taxonomy - it just depends what one is doing in it. When you first begin using it, you are locating info but after a while, you will interpret info then play and link it, then maybe you will experiment and finally design and construct something new. Flickr and Mind mapping (bubbl.us) probably sit on the lower rungs - not sure, though, it depends on your learning outcomes and what you want the students to achieve.