Hello all,
I am a Media Specialist working at Lethbridge College and this is a blog all about exposing faculty and students to Web2.0 applications and showing how they can be useful, enhance courses, save time and make the students experience the best it can be. I know I sound a little like a recruitment poster for the army but this excites me.
There are tens of thousands of these web 2.0 applications out there but how do you filter out the stuff that is useless for education and grab on to what could work for education and fulfill the exact needs of a specific course. It isn't easy because one app may be incredibly useful for one instructor while being completely useless for another. It is what I do on a daily basis in my job, instructors pose a problem and I try to find a tool that will work best for their specific needs. It often isn't easy and sometimes takes a bit of creative thinking and a new approach to really harness the power that this new technology offers to create really dynamic and exciting courses.
For this blog I hope to introduce or at least expose you to new and useful Web 2.0 tools that can (not must) be used for higher education. I will give a brief overview of what the app does and give a few examples of how you could use these online applications in classes.
Whenever possible I will try and get a quote or a guest writer to show how they are actually using it in their course to solve their specific problem.
If you live in Lethbridge I will also try to co-ordinate an information session and walkthrough of the application in one of the labs right here at Lethbridge College.
Of course I would love it if you would give me your feedback on any of these posts so that we could discuss them. In the end it is all a learning process and we are only limited by our imaginations.
Look for about a post a week unless I am feeling particularily spry then I may publish more. The next post will be about what and how to use an RSS feed. See you then.