Hello to all of you fantastic students!

As you will now know we are going to be keeping blogs this year. The purpose of this is for you to have a place to communicate your ideas, post task related reflections, answer big questions posted by myself or by other students in our class, ask your own questions and generally come together to share our understandings and thoughts in an alternative and new way. We will be using a number of online thinking and presentation tools to assist in expressing our thoughts and ideas in new and exciting ways.

Check out this Voki I have made - we will be able to use microphones to record our real voices and ideas … as you can hopefully tell this is not my voice,but is an example of Voki presentation formats.

This is open for you all to view and share.  Remember to be sensible and post sensible things.

Post regularly and have fun! I will be looking forward to reading and commenting on our new blog site!

Parents - This type of communication is classed under the label of ‘Web 2.0′ Check out some of these links for additional information and please encourage your children to enter regularly - as it is most likely a new learning experience for them and will pave the way for future endeavours.

Links: What is Web 2.0??Web 2.0 Videos and Powerpoints are available here. A site linking many ideas and information regarding Web 2.0 is here and some additional writings are available here about a range of Web 2.0 tools that can be used to enhance children’s education.