Introducing Learning 2.0
Dear Colleagues,
The Learning Technology team invite you over the next two terms to participate in our exciting discovery program, Learning 2.0.
Learning 2.0 is a simple and fun way to discover more about the wide array of Web 2.0 or “read-write web” tools now available on the Internet. Don’t know what Web 2.0 tools are? No idea how to use them? Then Learning 2.0 is for you.
As a special incentive, St. Michael’s staff who complete all ten activities in Learning 2.0 will earn for their class an mp3 player with built-in
voice recorder. This also applies to non-teaching staff – teachers’ aides,
for example, could still make use of one in their work with children.
Learning 2.0 officially launches next Monday, 30 April. Take the time from Monday onwards to look at the first activity, then get started on Activity 2 when it’s up and running and get yourself registered. Remember that you have two whole terms to complete ten simple activities, so you have plenty of time to get involved and complete the activities.
Go to the Learning 2.0 website and find out more: http://stmbtech.pbwiki.com/Learning-2
This term, Multimedia Monday sessions will be open-library sessions. The library will be open, and Robert and Judy will be on hand to provide support to people who need advice with their Learning 2.0 activity, wherever they’re up to.
We invite you to participate in Learning 2.0, and use the library computers on Monday afternoons to complete your activities. That way, you also have your colleagues around to share ideas and ask questions.
The library will be open for Learning 2.0 business on the following Multimedia Mondays:
30 April (Week 2) – take this chance to learn about Learning 2.0 and complete Activity 1
7 May (Week 3)
21 May (Week 5)
28 May (Week 6)
Week 4 is not included as it is a Staff Development Day.
We look forward to you joining us on the Learning 2.0 journey.
3 Responses to “Introducing Learning 2.0”
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April 25th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Congratulations on this wonderful initiative!! I am so thrilled to see this in action, that I have planned to showcase this promotional strategy at the workshops in New Zealand. I’m looking forward to seeing the developments…and being able to engage with all the new Web 2.0 savvy teachers at St Michael’s P.S.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:26 am
Thanks Judy for the support.
We’ll do our best – already there seem to be some interested staff. Certainly this online learning model could be applied to any one of a number of learning technology initiatives we have on the boil here at St. Michael’s this year. Maybe we could follow up with “LearningIWB” or “LearningCENet”. On the other hand, I’m also thinking there are a lot more Web 2.0 tools out there (and to come even during the course of our current program) that we could be doing new versions of Learning2.0 for years!
I think the key to all of this is to have teachers engage with the tools so they can then move on to using them in their classrooms. Otherwise, Web 2.0 tools become just “another thing we have to teach”, rather than “why don’t we get the kids to use these as well?” (when really the kids were using them before we were… but they usually humour us digital immigrants).
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm
You are so right Robert! The point of any technology with our millenial kids is to use these tools to improve their learning opportunities. As soon as the focus slips away from that, then we are missing the point. I hope that you will join me in sharing your initiatives with others….quality learning with our digital immigrants. Cheers.