My Personal Learning Space!

 Click here to view this AMAZING video: Second Life

I honestly can only say ‘WOW’. This video describes the online program ‘Second Life’ which is a virtual world in which people can literally work and live. So this brings up the question, could this be encorporated into the Primary Classroom? What do you think? I honestly have no clue. I think that technology has already shown us that its potental is limitless. Therefore I would not be suprised if a virtual world such as this would even end up being the new classroom! Sad to think however, that me being a future teacher could possibly be made redundant before I even get there!

This online commentary found on YouTube, entitled ‘Telling a New Story’ gives illustrations of how social software such as blogs can be used with even the youngest students in primary classrooms. I found this short clip to be very inspiring!

This commentary outlines various ways in which technology can be practical within the classroom, As many things that can be done on a computer can also be done with pencil and paper. Some of these examples include the publishing of work. When students are ready to publish a piece of work, they will do so over a blog. Their audience is wider and they have people around the world commenting and giving feedback on their work.

I found this concept alone quite interesting as I tend to question the use of technology in the primary classroom at times. The school itself also uses blogs as a way of informing parents about what their students are learning along with the various events that may be occurring within the classroom. And this particular class is a year one class! I find this all very fascinating, and this commentary has inspired me to use technology within the classroom when I was fairly sceptical before at the beginning of this class.