Thought summary

Although I haven't completed all the activities here is some feedback on my learning journey....
My favourite discoveries were the vast amount of resources that are available online. One could spend hours and hours (I suppose some do!) surfing through all the tools.
This program will assist me in keeping up to date with what tools are available and what people are using.
What surprised me was all the available tools!
To improve the program, a little more time on each activity would be handy. 2-3 weeks for some, just so I can get a handle on them before the next activity. Life is very busy and there is a lot of information to take in!
Yes, I would participate in another discovery program.
My learning experience was challenging but enlightening!Thank you.

ARED

I created an activity in ARED as a 'sequence steps in a process', but when I got to the 'select a text alternative file' I couldn't select a file. All that work just vanished! This is the sort of thing that frustrates me about technology...there are all these different tools which are fairly straight forward to use but sometimes the systems make them unworkable. I don't know enough about it all to be able to troubleshoot the different problems that arise, so end up using what's easy and what works eg. paperbased resources. I know trial and error come into it, but most of the time I don't have the time to perservere.

RSS Feeds

Mmmmmmm....again, there is a lot of information to take in. Not sure how to use this in the learning environment. It would be good to have links to a particular theme that the students would then access as per idea #2.

I use the internet favourites tool to get up-to-date information quickly, but I can see that people would enjoy the one-top-shop format that Google Reader and others provide.

I need to explore further to see how I can incorporate this tool into work and home life.

Podcast

Found a few interesting podcasts on podcastalley.com.......some good travel & tourism ones.

Uploaded photo

At last, I managed to upload one of my photos from flickr!

I am making my way through The Tassie Toolbox, albeit back to front. Starting to get the hang of all the different tools!

Richmond Bridge

Richmond Bridge
Originally uploaded by katherine39

Worth a visit on a warm summer's day!

TeacherTube

I have chosen 'The Great Depression' video from TeacherTube because it is a good example of a short movie using pictures and music, which was nicely edited. With all this talk of the global financial crisis I guess it is quite apt too.

It was also easily accessible, being on the homepage, as I didn't feel like going through the entire site to find a good one. This leads me to my gripe about the site (and others). It would be easier to navigate if the videos etc were categorised into topic areas so one doesn't have to trawl through everything to find anything relevant. I am sure there are some gems in amongst it all - I just don't have that much time on my hands!