Comments on: Thoughts on: A new wave of innovation for teaching and learning? (Alexander, 2006) http://elearningnews.edublogs.org/2007/10/17/thoughts-on-a-new-wave-of-innovation-for-teaching-and-learning-alexander-2006/ Notes on the Masters in Education - Information and Communication Technologies in Learning (UoW 2007) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:16:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: colinsimpson http://elearningnews.edublogs.org/2007/10/17/thoughts-on-a-new-wave-of-innovation-for-teaching-and-learning-alexander-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-34 colinsimpson Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:54:08 +0000 http://elearningnews.edublogs.org/2007/10/17/thoughts-on-a-new-wave-of-innovation-for-teaching-and-learning-alexander-2006/#comment-34 Yeah, there is certainly a time element that isn't always considered when people talk about these tools. The benefits of the social bookmarking tools would seem to outweigh the startup issues though - particularly if you can get your students excited about discovering and investigating new resources. Whether you have to do that by making it an assessment item or by introducing some kind of game elements to it - some kind of treasure hunt or most-links competition? If you get each student to create their own account (assuming you're using delicious), the for:yourname tagging system is a good way to track who's adding what. Yeah, there is certainly a time element that isn’t always considered when people talk about these tools.

The benefits of the social bookmarking tools would seem to outweigh the startup issues though – particularly if you can get your students excited about discovering and investigating new resources.

Whether you have to do that by making it an assessment item or by introducing some kind of game elements to it – some kind of treasure hunt or most-links competition?

If you get each student to create their own account (assuming you’re using delicious), the for:yourname tagging system is a good way to track who’s adding what.

]]> By: jdgypton http://elearningnews.edublogs.org/2007/10/17/thoughts-on-a-new-wave-of-innovation-for-teaching-and-learning-alexander-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-29 jdgypton Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:16:09 +0000 http://elearningnews.edublogs.org/2007/10/17/thoughts-on-a-new-wave-of-innovation-for-teaching-and-learning-alexander-2006/#comment-29 Thanks for the article link and your thoughts in the post. I'm in the process of implementing several 2.0 technologies in my high school history and government courses, and thus far what I've rolled out has been well-received by students. I've already gotten a lot of mileage out of class wikis, and RSS feeds -- for those students who take the time to bookmark the properly -- are great. I need to work on the social bookmarking side of things, though, too -- but making time to teach my students how and why is difficult. All the potential is often blunted by the reality of the day-to-day grind. What are your thoughts on that? jdg Thanks for the article link and your thoughts in the post. I’m in the process of implementing several 2.0 technologies in my high school history and government courses, and thus far what I’ve rolled out has been well-received by students. I’ve already gotten a lot of mileage out of class wikis, and RSS feeds — for those students who take the time to bookmark the properly — are great.

I need to work on the social bookmarking side of things, though, too — but making time to teach my students how and why is difficult. All the potential is often blunted by the reality of the day-to-day grind.

What are your thoughts on that?

jdg

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