e-learning 2.0

I have been looking at a series of posts from other people and thinking about how their experiences align with mine, or not.

Emma Duke-Williams has been writing some posts about using Flock as a browser. I thought about doing the same but I wanted my students to be able to make their browser portable and portable Flock is a big program. In the end I set up a copy of portable Firefox on a USB key and added in the WIZZ RSS extension together with a number of bookmarks. Students copied this onto their own USB key and then adapted it as they saw fit. All of their blogs were already set up so they could get started with the RSS feeds from them. To get the direct writing facility, if they want it, students can use another Firefox extension - “Performancing”. In general I want them to see the actual blog post from others because I am encouraging them to comment. That reminds me, I tried to do a direct comment on Emma’s post and the system would not let me, hopefully this will come up as a track back.

Josie Fraser has an interesting post about ALT-C, which unfortunately I could not get to, which includes link to a presentation about PLEs

Vicki Davis has some great ideas about how to comment on a blog including some links to useful Firefox extensions. Following her advice I am linking back to her blog. Hope it works!!

There is an interesting article about e-learning 2.0 from the “A discussion paper prepared as part of the Campus 2020 process for the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education.” Thanks to EdTechPost for drawing my attention to the paper, not sure I agree with all of it as it still seems to be teacher centred in some of its ideas rather than student centred but it well worth a read.

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