So we've now come to the end of our Living and Learning with technology unit! Can't believe this unit is over and more so I can't believe how much I've actually learnt over the semester! At the beginning I was sceptical about the unit, I thought that I had a good grasp of all the technology I would need for a teaching career....how wrong was I? Although I had a relatively good knowledge of technology....enough that would have gotten me through, I have learnt so many valuable lessons and explo...
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Today in our tutorial most of the groups presented their Assignment 3. It was great to see the final products and the different ideas everyone had come up wih.
We presented our Wiki first, I thought our video came across really well. The sound was a little quiet which possibly made it a little harder for the class members to really enagage in our video, but over all I was really happy with it! The other videos that were presented were also really great!
Some of the other groups we saw today in...
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We've had a tutorial and lecture free week this week so we've been able to focus on completing our group assignment. I think we've done a really great job on it. Our group has met up a couple more times over the last week to work through it together and then we worked on separate pages and our references while at home and then edited them together. We broadened our age group from year 5-7's as we decided with a little more guidance from the teacher younger age groups would definately be able ...

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Todays lecture was all about teaching in the 21st century. We spoke about the importance of technology in the classroom but how it isn't able to replace teachers. I understand this as technology alone not being enough to teach students, we still need teachers in the classroom to plan authentic tasks and that the technology will be used to aid teachers rather than replace them.
We also spoke about the use of mobile phones in the classroom. I found this very interesting as it is not something I ...
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We've had another group meeting to work on assignment 3 today. We're making lots of progress on it now, we have decided to change our topic a little so we are teaching our students to create digital storybooks.
We have decided our lesson plans will be for year seven students, under the subject of English.
Today I researched the Australian curriculum and provided links on our Wiki space to the scope and sequence reading and writing. Over the next few days we will research some more links to ad...
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Im finding myself getting very frustrated with the Yola website. Iv been trying to make my website more visually appealing by adding some page snaps, unfortunately Iv been having endless problems with this! My site is continually freezing everytime I load a new picture, resulting in me having to shut down the page and therefore losing any new data I hadn't yet saved! Iv been onto the discussion board and it appears as though I'm not the only person experiencing this problem with Yola. It's be...
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So I'v just finished off my task two. I feel I've learnt a lot more from this assignment than the last two that will be helpful to me, not only as a uni student but also as a teacher. My research has really opened my eyes to the importance of technology within the classroom. It is clear technology is becoming a major part of all classrooms, from interactive white boards, online lessons, connecting with experts, online educational games and so much more.
I'm really beginning to understand the ...
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So I've had to put our work on assignment three on hold so I'm able to finish up on my assignment two.
Our task here is to chose a topic of interest to us and research how technology would be useful in teaching this subject in the classroom. Initially I decided on the Solar System, however I was having difficulty finding certain articles on this specific subject so I decided to broaden my topic a little and I have gone with Science.
We needed to include at least one each of these references: ...
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Group assignment three is creating a great deal of confusion for us all. We've now spent a lot of time as a group just trying to work out exactly what is required of us for this assignment! Our group has spent hours researching the LMS, companion website, unit guide and other sample assingments and it still isn't clear!
We've chosen to do our assignment on Water conservation, so under the subject of Society and environment and for year seven students. Our final assignment plan is for the stud...

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My social resources site is complete and ready to upload! I’ve had a few things to work on since our peer review. My review made me realise I didn’t have nearly enough information on how to set up Netvibes and I needed to be clearer about the social side of the site.

I was just going to put this all up on my page but after talking with peers about it in our workshop this week I decided to put it all in a word document and upload the link to my site. Many of my peers have done videos or ...

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So the last week has been a non-teaching week, but there's still been plenty to work on!
Iv completed my mature draft of my social learner assignment 1b, and published it on my site. My end decision was to go with Netvibes and create a site where my travel buddies and I can look up information for an upcoming holiday to Thailand.
My biggest issue Iv had with this site is not being able to load the widget for the Netvibes wall where I can chat with my added friends in an instant messaging progr...
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I'm almost done with my social learner draft! I'm feeling pretty happy about it now!
I seemed to spend most of my time exploring the many social networking site out there-I had no idea there were so many!
I've looked into Meetup, igoogle, Pageflakes, Diigo, Bebo, Ning and many more. I went through the whole set up process with about 4 different sites but found many of them had to be paid for or they were limited with the widgets or layout I could work with.
I did some more searching on the top...
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So my website is up and running! After lots of changes to the layout, pictures and styles, I’m pretty happy with it overall!

I’m now onto the second part of the assignment; the social learner. My task is to think of an event or social situation and then use online technologies to help make this event possible.

I’ve been toying with many different ideas for this task, initially I wanted to do a dinner party and have my guests help plan the menu. I intended to use Taste.com for this, h...

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Today was our third living and learning with technology lecture, Iv been feeling a little overwhelmed about creating the website and more so about writing my reflections on the classes down in my blog. After this mornings lecture, where we discussed the rubric for our blog, Im feeling much more confident about whats suppose to be included!

Iv spent the last week mostly concerned about making my website appealing to the eye, I think Iv tried out at least 15 different pictures, but after our lec...

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First week of university was a success...with the lost count suprisingly only at one!
Iv explored the campus, met new friends, lazed in bush court and am finally getting my head around my first assignment!
So here I am creating my first ever website and blog! Not something I imagined myself doing in the first weeks of uni.
So stay tuned...were hoping its a smooth ride...

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