Connect, Collaborate, eLearn

Well Today was really interesting. I enjoyed the relaxed but very thought provoking feel of the conference. Also my new pen-drive rocks!!!
So where to from here? How do we make a change? Well I'm going to take Tony Ryan's advice and revisit my notes. (yes I took notes).

Suzie raised some interesting questions about setting up online digital learning environments. And I wonder have we discussed enough about all the long term things like when teachers move on etc. I think the idea of saying explicitly what the purpose of blogs are (educationally) and then creating a brief action plan was a really good idea. I guess alot of us have done this though with our teacher inquiries.

Tony Ryan made me think about the importance of engaging the kids and getting into their world of infotainment. I think his ideas about teaching paraphrasing and self-talk were extremely good and my goal is to give it a go this week!

My two breakouts were with Suzie Vesper and Nick Rate. Suzie explained how she uses googledocs and a couple of other web 2.0 tools.

http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/
http://learningweb2.wikispaces.com/
http://suzieslinks.com/

Nick talked about e portfolios but also the purpose of them. This really made me think. I love the idea of a process portfolio but I am so in the showcase mindset!