This is another post about an interesting recommended article I read, this time it was Top Tools for Learning 2011. What I found very interesting about this list, was that the number 1 Top Tool for Learning according to the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, was Twitter. Oh and by the way, it wasn't just number 1 for the year 2011, but also the year before, and the year before.

 
 Now, I have a Twitter account, and have had one for quite some time now. I could not understand how ...
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I recently read one of the articles listed in the recommended readings that I found very interesting. The article, Teaching the Facebook generation, talks about how so many encourage the use of social networking in schools, yet many schools ban such websites.

I already talked a little bit about using social networking in the classroom in my last blog post, but I didn't talk much about the consequences or what is preventing teachers from diving head first into this approach.

In my high school, l...
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One of the ideas that I keep running into is using Social Networking as a tool to enhance the learning of students. 
A great example of this is Murdoch's LMS system, which allows students studying the same subject to ask each other questions and discuss the unit content. 
I wanted to learn more about this, so I read up on chapter 5 of our book (Meaningful Learning with Technology) as to why using these tools is a good idea (or why not).

Face to face communication vs. online communication
So the m...
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I've been looking at readings and links lately to try and find ideas to improve my website. At the moment, I think my website is acceptable but I am trying to look for things I can improve. 

I found this link to Simple ideas for website design, which gave me some very useful ideas that I didn't think of. One of these is to include a contact point for feedback, which will be particularly useful considering the next assignment includes a Peer Review component. I think i'm going to add a page wit...
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