Up up and away ...
There are some things that look easy ... and, well, it is not so easy if you are not heavily into lateral thinking! After creating the blog and writing away happily, I went to enter the details into the CEO Web 2 wiki page. I got as far as the instruction to click "edit" in the top right hand corner.
Everything stopped for nearly half an hour as I searched in the very top right hand corner. There was no edit function! slowly it dawned on me that the edit function was found within the wiki page - it was one of those occasions where I was glad I was doing this from home and not in the classroom. I would have learned a lot faster as the students would have found it hilarious that the REC couldn't even find an edit function.
So the major learning for me in this module was,not as could be possibly expected, the aquisition of skills to create and manage a blog and use it within the wiki, but the need to observe carefully and learn to "read" in a new way.
It made me think about the boys I teach and their learning processes. True, they learn at different paces and in different modes to what I do, but they have skill sets that I don't. Already, technology is collobrative and cooperative, and that is a good thing.
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Hey Paul,
ReplyDeleteI also had the same problem with finding the edit button. The only difference is that when I was at home looking for it, I couldn't find it because it wasn't there. I had to call on a colleague to help me register my blog because I just wasn't able to access the edit drop-down box.
It does make you think about students and their learning but, especially when it involves technology and who does or doesn't have the necessary requirements on their computers.
Thanks :)