http://ldunn136.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:54:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just thought I would leave with some final thoughts about my experience with using edublogs and exploring diferent technologies over the past month before my blog gets marked for my university subject entitled 'Current Issues and Applications in Educational Computing'. My knowledge has truly expanded in the time that I ... http://ldunn136.edublogs.org/2008/03/06/final-thoughts/ I have just visited Tim's blog and on his blog he has a post on digital storytelling. This made me think that digital storytelling would be a great task to use in a webquest activity because it shows that students have engaged in the content area and thus has created ... http://ldunn136.edublogs.org/2008/03/06/digital-storytelling/ Dan has come across a really good technology that is an add on for Mozilla Firefox. This add on can change the physical appearance of a webpage to change the font colour, size etc. This add on is another tool that would make the internet more accessible to students with special needs. Consequently, ... http://ldunn136.edublogs.org/2008/03/06/catering-for-special-needs/ Having just read Linda's post on Northcott CATS, I wish to further talk about the topic of assistive technologies for people with disabilities. I have just been reading an article and in it it describes a type of software which can be used on webpages to translate text in the webpage into ... http://ldunn136.edublogs.org/2008/03/05/people-with-disabilities-and-the-internet/                         I have just found a very useful webpage which focuses on staff development in regard to webquests. It contains different modules which deal with the various aspects of webquest design and webquests themselves. Click here to see this website! http://ldunn136.edublogs.org/2008/03/03/staff-development-webquests/ The video below contains Bernie Dodge, the original creator of the notion of webquests, explaining in what ways blogs and wikis can be used in a webquest as well as briefly the features of each. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/KWi2kHD-Kw0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Ref.Johndemmers. (2006). Webquest, Blogs & Wikis. Retrieved 4th March 2008, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWi2kHD-Kw0 http://ldunn136.edublogs.org/2008/03/03/use-of-blogs-and-wikis-in-a-webquest/ I have just found another excellent website that is in the form of a webquest building template. This would be really helpful for teachers when creating their own webquest because it goes through each step of the webquest building process in a very simple and teacher friendly manner. Click here to ... http://ldunn136.edublogs.org/2008/03/03/webquest-building-template/ I have found a really helpful website that goes through all the different types of tasks that a webquest can be. For example, retelling task, compilation task etc. This is really useful if you want to create your own webquest or even if you just want to know more about them. Click here to check ... http://ldunn136.edublogs.org/2008/03/02/webquest-taxonomy-a-taxonomy-of-tasks/ Narelle has made some really interesting comments in regard to how children speak in an informal context as opposed to a formal context. It is a really interesting development in recent years due to technology increasingly becoming more common place in society. I know that I have experienced it first hand by ... http://ldunn136.edublogs.org/2008/03/01/chatspeak-reflection/                                                                                      Kirsty has put an interesting video on her blog page. This video is the telling of Jack and the Beanstalk by children through the use of an i-movie. This got me thinking that using an i-movie would be a great tool to use as an assessment for a cumulative ... http://ldunn136.edublogs.org/2008/02/27/jack-and-the-beanstalk/