A blog is short for a web log and can be a useful tool for recording reflections, personal experiences, opinions, to reporting or making commentary on event.
There are many tools availabe on the internet which can’t be all listed here however for a comprehensive list of the types of learning tools there are and which can be used can be found under Jane Hart’s website: Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT): A resource site for the use of new technologies for working and learningįind out more about tools in our Extending ELT sectionīlogs and Wikis are web tools that allow you to share and collaborate on the internet. We have seen a huge surge in games based learning for young learners and many websites offer learner online games to reinforce learning. Diigo, CiteULike), and news feeds (RSS, Atom). Reflective (blogging, wikis and social networking), The use of blogs and wikis in education is relatively well established and supports existing pedagogies of reflective writing (the blog) and teamwork (the wiki).Įxploratory (social bookmarking, syndication RSS, folksonomies), and social web tools can support research and inquiry in a range of ways including social bookmarking, annotation and reference management services (e.g.
As well as providing platforms for free storage and publication of large files the sites include opportunities to control access, to tag content for searching, ‘hit counters’, and to allow comments, rating and feedback. Selwyn’s taxonomy is based on four human dispositions which the different technologies support:Įxpressive (media creation and sharing) – This includes tools for creating, editing, mixing, sharing and re-purposing creative output including videos, audio and animation (e.g.
Neil Selwyn’s ‘Education 2.0’ commentary from the UK’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme offers a contextual categorisation of social web (aka web 2.0)services.
The pace of these changes to services and features is something which is challenging to those in any fields let alone teaching. There are many ways of categorising web tools, as many features can overlap and services can change and be enhanced over time.
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