Week 6: Internet Skills and Tools
- Take the quick Internet Skills quiz
- Explore Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML
- Learn about RSS feeds (try RSS the Oprah Way) and setup your own newsreader account (Google Reader orNetvibes are good choices). Add the Pedagogy First! blog feed to your reader.
- Learn how to embed a video to a Wordpress.com or Edublog blog.
- Post: Find a video on YouTube or another supported sharing site that teaches something from your class or that teaches you something about teaching online. Embed it in your post and comment on it, using a bit of html in the post by selecting <> as you construct your post to add the code.
Week 6 begins tomorrow ie Oct 7. This week is mainly about Internet , web 2.0 skills and Tools These skills are one of my strength area. I started testing my skills with the quiz , Voila !
I scored 100% , superfun to take this quiz.
I encourage all participants to take this quiz, it is an energizer. This week activities seem a cakewalk for me and I am glad I would be able to utilize time to catch up to do activities from previous weeks. I have also added Pedagogy First feed to my Google Reader. I find RSS a pretty smart way to aggregate articles , resources on to one place so that I don't have to visit 10 different sites and I get to read articles of interest on one page through Google reader. As far as finding & embedding video activity is concerned , I would like to share a video by George Siemens , I am influenced by his thoughts on open education, connectivism . I had the opportunity to meet and hear him in person during one of the Education conference organized this year in India.
Hi Ruchi, will be sure to take the test, could use some energy today. One question I have about web literacy is hard for me to define. Our students use the net in library and when I walk through I see Facebook and online poker games everywhere and no other uses. It's as if the whole wealth of information available was beyond their fixation on self and the familiar and invisible to them. To me, this isn't literacy in any sense of the word.
ReplyDeleteHow do we introduce the concept of being part of something larger than self? That's important in school but seems missing. My mother was a teacher also and is likely the source of the curiosity I take for granted in myself and expect of others--it's deeper than just education.
Off to take the test. Thanks!
Thanks for the assignment recap ~ I keep finding myself losing track this round, too many MOOCs, too little time ~ and need all the redundancy I can get. I'm going to recommend the quiz to my online esl study as well a local GED study group.
ReplyDeleteI've been an rss junkie for a while now. It is probably the tool I use the most. The "send to" (blogs, social media, etc) function is especially useful, but you have to go into Settings to add targets.
(blogging POTcert on WP at MOOC Madness
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