Module 10

I found this module very interesting and can definitely see the many benefits of virtual learning environments, for both teachers and students.  I currently use  blogs within our school for students(managed by teachers) and am looking toward using these for students (eg. digital portfolio) I find this a very safe and secure platform which is designed specifically for education.

Wiki:
Allow people to change what appears on a website by only clicking a button, erasing and re writing it. You edit and save. When you edit something, it transforms the webpage into a document. Once you click save, the document becomes a webpage once again, until someone edits it again. Edit, write and save are the main features.

Use in the classroom can occur for research task type activities, where students may collaborate to create a website full of information on a topic or topics. You can also create links to your wiki page so topics and sub topics can be created for a collaborative research task - like a fact sheet booklet, but in digital format.

EDIT   SAVE   LINK     processes that can be repeated many times within the wiki.

This has been used in Wikipedia - it is always updating constantly.

At the moment I am using Google Apps as our platform for collaboration and is working really well for me. Keen to use wikis in the future to broaden the student's knowledge of using and creating wikis.

Google Sites

I have had the opportunity to be involved in the implementation of Google Apps at a school level. This being the case I was able to easily create and share websites with my students. Some of which directed the learning for a all of my Key Learning Areas:  I was lucky enough to find a similar website through an online learning community. That is one of the best things about education and technology. The willingness of those involved to share their ideas with others for the betterment of all students.