Wiki (a) space (for thinking, sharing, communicating, contributing...).

Just thought that I would add my first attempt at loading a video and a picture to my wiki. I have used a wiki previously to communicate with members of my group during an assignment but have never gone beyond adding text until today. I think that I have found so far that each of the digital tools that I have experimented with have been easy to use...it's simply a matter of 'playing around with it'. Here is a link to  some wikis that I have created and used (wiki 1 & wiki 2).

IF WE LEARN BY DOING, WHAT ARE WE LEARNING BY SITTING HERE?

This is a video that I recall watching sometime last year...my immediate reaction was oh dear...I can't do this. To begin with I had no idea what a blog, wiki or a podcast was and I wondered how I could teach these students using these technologies if I don't even know what they were. The sad thing was instead of actually taking the time to find out and engage with these foreign technologies, I dumped them straight into the 'too hard basket' where they have remained until the past few weeks. Now a confident blogger, beginning wiki user, (just uploaded my first videos and picture) and amateur podcaster I am beginning to realise the important message that 21st century learners are trying to get across to their teachers..."ENGAGE ME". THis video went beyond engagement, student's want us to teach them to think, to analyse and create. This statement portrayed in the video really resonated with me, "If we learn by doing, what are we learning by sitting here?"