Thing #17

Playing in the sandbox was fun. Reading all the things that others had contributed was inspiring to create my own wiki and learn to be more comfortable with this form of communication/collaboration. I hope to create a wiki to use with my students in the future. I am exploring topics and ideas right now and deciding what pages to include.

Below is my post to the sandbox...
Library 2.0 has been a dip in the deep end of the technology pool for many of us. It has stretched our minds and our technology skills to new frontiers. But once stretched it will be hard hopefully to return to the old ways of doing things. Hopefully our enthusiasm will spread throughout our campuses and grow a new urgency amongst our colleagues to swim in the deep end. To make their lessons more exciting, to try new and innovative ways to do things, to collaborate more and not only enhance the learning of their students but also their communities (teachers & parents). I think Wiki's are exciting from the standpoint they are the future a 24/7 collaborative tool to use both in and out of the classroom. For students, teachers, librarians, staff and parents to even collaborate and share knowledge. My goal now is to create a wiki and learn to feel more comfortable with this new method of collaborative learning.

Thing #1

Well this class will be a rollercoaster ride for many of us! I for one have been out of school for 20 years and could tell upon registering for this class how time has changed school. Twenty years ago registering would have been done by walking my card around campus to the advisors office and I would have purchased books at the campus bookstore. Today registration was online, the bookstore even had an online link to find textbooks needed for your class. I found that I could order books online from Amazon and it was cheaper than the campus bookstore. Prior to enrolling in this class I felt relatively computer literate. However, as I read the blog about the 2.0 things we will explore I realized I have just dipped my toes in the technology waters. Hopefully I will be able to swim soon!