I am usually leery of team work. Some groups tend to have people who do not do anything. I was afraid my group may think this of me since I didn't respond in what I consider a timely manner to our first introduction. However, we now seem to have things worked out and everyone (including me) responds as soon as possible. I am proud of the fact that we can work as a team and get everything accomplished together.
I do like using iGoogle and especially GoogleDocs. I would love to share this with my students so that they can work on assignments at home or at school and make changes as needed. I would also love to have them set up their own PLEs so they can see the power of technology beyond MySpace and Facebook.
I am also nervous when it comes to team work. Throughout all my course, I maybe had one smooth sailing team. Like you, I feel things are working out just fine and like what we've accomplished so far.
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love the layout/color Becky! I am sure that we will do great this semester :)
ReplyDeleteGreat to know you use iGoogle regularly. It is very important to use iGoogle to manage our learning in 647 because with it our learning can be very tedious. That is reason why PLE and ONLE are approved as more authentic learner-centered learning.
ReplyDeleteI like that your group integrate blog as a team space for communication, information sharing, and interaction etc. I encourage your group to turn the team blog into a ONLE for your own group so group members can visit it on regular basis. You team can add various gadgets to make the blog containing richer and live feed information. The example would be like our course blog: http://etc647.blogspot.com/. It contains almost all our course interaction, communications.
Web 2.0 tools are very flexible. Frequently people use them in non-traditional ways. That is the beauty of Web 2.0 technologies. We are different but we have things in common and work together as a community.
PLE, NLE, and Connectivism are just pure technology impact to human learning; it is referred to our attitude toward to technology and learning. If we apply our learning paradigm to understand how PLE, NLE, and Connectivism work, it is extremely difficult to understand how people learn with new network technologies. Perhaps that is reason why we have difficulty to understand how younger generations learn, how they use network technologies, and why they them.