Week 3 Reflection

WELCOME TO MY WEEK 3!

So much content to get through this week and so little time! I've incorporated a PMI chart as recommended in this week's learning materials. A great tool and easy to use with your students to visualise the pros and cons of anything really! I have attached the link if you wish to enhance your students learning.

http://elearncqu.wikispaces.com/PMI+Charts

	Positives	Negatives	Implications
Blogs (Digital Tool 1)	Individualised learning Gives learners time to self-reflect Helps learners better their writing skills through expressing themselves through reflection You are the author Add images, graphics videos to enhance.	Biased/subjective comments that are harsh towards the learners own reflection Takes time to update your blog Depending on the task, not all content is appropriate for postings onto blogs	Incorporates many multi media forms Blogging can be informal learning in an alternative way An up-to-date learning tool where students are encouraged to express themselves and share it with others
Wikis (Digital Tool 2)	Collaborative Learning Promotes creativity Easy to share information Students can modify, add or remove content.	Students could be unfamiliar with the software Chance of vandalism and inappropriate use of the wiki happening Can become quite overwhelming with too many responses	Creates a research centre of information for the students. Students can refer back to wikis
Websites (Digital Tool 3)	Individualised learning Allows for creativity Student can construct their own website with the design of their own choice	Have to be careful to not copyright/use others ideas without recognising/referencing them Can require a lot of time and structure (snippets of codes/embed links and graphics)	Allows students to showcase their individual creativity Can enhance students elearning and abilities to use digital tools.

http://meblog.pbworks.com/Blog
http://meblog.pbworks.com/Wiki

Ultimately I found the construction of these digital tools was based around -

BLOGS: Single authored page, can add content (your students own ideas), interaction still occurs but through comments onto a particular post (not necessarily a discussion), with a chronological appearance.

WIKIS: Multi-authored page, anyone is able to edit/add/remove information on the wiki, collaborative interaction/discussions can occur here, wikis are not in chronological order.

WEBSITES: Single-authored page, can add any type of content with the appropriate embed codes, interaction available for the all the students to be able to view each others pages.



Im going to finish up today with a little video (found on youtube) of where we are heading to with the future web 3.0!