Internet Learning Resources Week 3

The last couple of weeks have brought up some interesting topics. The first one was the quote from Tom March about the Internet being "an embarrassment of riches" and is useless without teachers. There were some interesting reactions to this quote from class members and the diverse thoughts were great to read.

The other big topic that was interesting for me was the Wikipedia debate. Wikipedia is one of those things that seems to bring out very strong feelings in people. It is almost like discussing religion or politics. Some people are adamant that Wikipedia is no good while others try to find a use for it. Again, I really enjoyed reading these comments and am anxious to see how Wikipedia evolves and whether or not it becomes accepted in education.

I also really liked getting in back into the group work. I was again joined up with Brian and Kylie who were in my group in the first class. We have all come a long way since then and it was good to catch up a bit with them.

One of the items we reviewed was virtual classrooms. We strayed from the assignment a bit and reviewed an alternate online classroom. We decided to see what WebEx could do for education. It is widely used in the business world for trainings and meetings but could that be adapted to education? We found that it had most of the same features that Elluminate did. Depending on what tools you wanted for your online classroom, it could be used for online classrooms.

Once more week and we have finished our fourth course in this program. Hard to believe that we have already come this far. I am already looking forward to the next class.