Module 3

Google docs seems a great resource - if only I could get it to load a whole document!

I can see I could use it in a number of ways.

• Working on documents between teachers at school ie policies, letters etc
• With students-start a story and the students add the next part, or they add a different ending etc.
• Students send drafts for editing, teacher makes comments etc and student access the document and comments.
• peer editing
• With IWTL group. We want to create shared lists of fiction titles for different topics.Do this in google doc and we can all keep adding to it

Module 2

This module was relatively straight forward as I had been introduced to blogs last year and decided to create one for stage 2 to discuss the book week books last year.http://stmbelfield.edublogs.org/ At the time I found it quite time consuming trying to get it all set up but once done it was worthwhile as the students responded very positively to it even though it was their first time blogging.I am thinking of trying one with stage 3 this term for them to record their reflections and learning in regards to their topic of Visual ventures.
What I want to know is how can I put everthing in one place. That is have one library blog(or should it be a wiki with blogs in it??) that has all these bits archived or linked rather than creating new ones all the time and having different entry points.I feel I am just creating bits of internet files(like as if I were doing everything on different bits of paper.) rather than managing it all together.

On another point: there is so much out there in the way of tools and programs to look at that at times I find it overwhelming(even within the blog there are so many options and bits you can add or do) and wonder when do I stop looking and get on with mastering and using some properly.

Module 1 Reflection

Some of the aspects mentioned in module one I had come across or heard of so felt more confident and moved through this module fairly quickly. There was a lot to read especially on the right hand side of the myclasses page. However it was all helpful and reasurring. However I can see that this course is going to take a lot of time due to what we will need to do but also going off on a tangent when I discover things that I could use at school.