Module 3

It's been a while since I actually used this CEO course for it's intended purpose -- ie doing the course. Mostly I use it to communicate with other CEO people via the wet paint wiki. This has helped me get a better handle on the idea of social networking in a professional/educational sense, as well as for socialising. I believe we should keep up a web 2 forum for this in the CEO once this official course or platform goes...

Anyway, Google Docs!

I've learned how to do this before on the How to of Web 2, but the luddite in me has always felt that there is something too 'public' about publishing anything -- even privately -- on web 2. So I secrete docs (that I don't even care who sees anyway) onto my desktop and email them and save them on portable hard drives and usbs and save them into files on various computers out of this fear. The other (and probably more accurate fear from past experience) is that even if I started using this form of saving and sharing, I will either lose the passwords or somehow the powers that be out there will refuse to recognise my password any more and all will be lost.

I now, after watching the vids on how its used in education, would use it for specific purposes of collaboration with colleagues and students -- but the careful horder in me would still probably not use it more generally yet. Still! Small steps for major breakthroughs don't you think? (I say, assuming I'm speaking to thin air or myself as you do on a blog...Anyone out there?)

PS -- addition to MODULE 2: I didn't really comment on the use of blogs. I'm a fan, and have used them for regional writer's workshops etc for students. It is interesting to note here that certainly amongst my girls in the Shire, blogging is relatively unknown to them. e think because our students use MSN and facebook as second nature that the tools of web 2 are also theirs in general. Absolutely not so. In my experience they know nothing of blogs, wikis or even flikr, delicious or twitter. It doesn't mean they won't take to it -- but don't be fooled into thinking you are joining the world they already inhabit with these tools. They do need to be shown how to use them and what they can mean before they fly and go places you didn't imagine with them.

I also think Primary school children respond positively to wikis and blogs more quickly than secondary students do. Our region has a wiki attached to online gifted learning programs (e~TASC) and to see the way primary students communicate with each other and offer the most amazing online tutorials in web 2 tools has totally freaked my secondary students (who do not know the first thing about it and are very tentative about learning skills) out.