Module 4

Flicker has potential
Yr 11 Biology and the pollination of Australian Plants.  I have uploaded about 25 images I have taken of Australian flowers.  I could then share the file with my students and get them to propose how the plant may be pollinated, thus completing a dot point for Evolution of Australian Biota.  Looks promising.
My Yr 7's could email me there photos of the geranium plants.  Then I could upload them and they could then annotate them in flicker.  Another way of them observing and recoding their observations.
The area of copyright gets more tricky.  I think I am going to need to pay a  lot more attention to this area both within school related work and other activities I engage in.  Plenty of room for learning here.

Module 3

I spent some time today exploring Google docs.  Now this seems to have tremendous potential.  It can use many of the documents I already have without needing to rework them as wold be required for wiki's.
The biggest disadvantage is needing to get all the students to set up a g mail account, including myself.  Having just set up my igoogle account using a non-g mail address, I will now need to reset i-google for my g amil address and use that version if I am going to use i-google.  I don't like having so many accounts etc.  I'd rather have everything integrated. 
Also Yr 7 don't have laptops at the moment so that only leaves Yr 11, and they only have 6 weeks left then I am on leave for 12 months.  However I will continue to explore possibilities.  Tomorrow I will see what the Yr 11's think and what suggestions they have.
But this is the application that has the most potential for teaching from what I have seen through web 2.0 so far.

Module 2

It just seems a bit over whelming.  I checked out lots of blogs and sites listing blogs and I felt as if I was following multiple threads of a spiders web.  It is possible that students may enjoy blogging but at the moment it does not appeal to me.  Writing to an unknown audience, even perhaps with no one ever to read it.  For what purpose.
May be there could be potential for short sharp bursts as another medium to engage students, but does it have the potential for an extended life?  I doubt it for me.
One possibility that comes to mind:  Yr 7 Science planted geranium seedlings today.  They took photos on their phones and will email them to their group mmembers.  Then in the exercise books they started a record of their activity, observations and measurements of their plant.  If they had laptops they could do this via a blog and share it with each other.  But is it going to have a better educational outcome than what we have started today?
I do see there is a role for blogs in other situations- eg my son kept us all entertaiend with his travellers tales last year whilst having a gap year.  Cheaper and more efficient than post cards and phone calls.
Maybe as I explore more I may be converted, but as yet I am not.

Module 1

Hi I'm Elizabeth Lee and I signed up to this Web 2.0 course at the beginning of last week.  Given that I have lost 2 Yr 12 classes I thought now would be a good time to develop some of my ICT skills.  However it has been more of a challenge that I expected.  Given that I am a digital immigrant, I consider myself to be quite computer literate, but I have found getting to this stage of the Web 2.0 course quite time consuming and challenging.  This is in part because I already had some of the accounts and needed to track down user names and passwords to reactiviate them.  But also there just seems so many videos to view and paths that can be followed.  When does one call it quits and say "Yes I can do this now and I don't need to learn more about it not"?
There are so many possibilities with all of this how can I utilise it to maximise student learning?
May be I should just choose one of my courses and start thinking how I can do it effectively in some lessons in that course.