This week marked the first week in our Internet for educators course. Within the first week we have already been introduced to a variety of online platforms that we can take advantage of as teachers. The first is a type of social media platform offered from google known as Google Plus. I am not familiar with google plus as I have never used it before, that will change with this course as google plus seems to be one we will use through out the course. For the class we have Google Plus Community set up. This allows all class members to join the community using their google profile. Thus giving us a platform where we can all communicate and share information. I have used some of googles other online features in the past and look forward to learning more about google plus.
The other social media platform we will be using during the course is one that I am more familiar with which is twitter. I have used twitter for a number of years but on more of a personal level than professionally. Also I am currently not as active on twitter as I used to be. So I have a basic understanding of how twitter works but have a lot to learn about some of the new features twitter offers. As well as ways that twitter can be used professionally as a teacher.
Feedly is a type of RSS feed and one that I plan to use in this class. RSS stands for Rich Site Summary and is a way to tell if there is something new on website without having to go to the website itself. Technically it is a way to organize all of the online information that you find important. You can put all the different types of sites you normally visit onto your RSS feed, this feed will be able to show you any new posts from the webpages. I plan to use this service to monitor my classmates blogs as well as manage some of my personal interests online.
Hey Wade,
ReplyDeleteGood start to your blog! I am in the same boat as you are as I am not familiar with Google Plus as well as Feedly, but I think they will both be useful applications. I think if you ever plan on having your students use a blog, twitter, or any other online application like this Google Plus and Feedly is a great way to organize those types of applications. As teachers it will make it very easy to have all of your students blogs or what not in one place instead of having to search and find each individual blog.
Hello Wade,
ReplyDeleteI was in Dr.Nantais' ICT class year and we used google plus the entire time. Google plus seems like a manageable way to organise material for students at the senior years level for sure. I like that it is contained. Once a community is started, then all posts are easy to view which I think is helpful since high school students could get carried away with comments and posts. As far as twitter goes, I too have a lot to learn in terms of professional use. It'll be interesting to see what Dr.Nantais has lined up for us here.
Nice blog layout by the way. I might copy it a little bit....