Web 2.0 possibilities

Academic Year 09-10. An old module in a new jacket : Add-ICT. The aim is to look at using ICT in education beyond the normal textbook CD-Rom and with only basic ICT knowledge.

The old module was outdated. Links that didn't work, files that were a little creaky around the edges. Therefore I have chosen to investigate Web 2.0 applications and their accessibility to teachers. The target audience - third year trainee English teachers. The goal - to investigate possibilities together, experiment with using a few (hence this blog), analyse what is already used and available in Dutch schools to support the current learning methodology and to make a proposal for using one of the Web 2.0 applications to enhance learning. After the initial investigative period (10 weeks), the students will then spend a further 8-10 weeks designing a product and trying this in their own classrooms. They will present their results and their findings in January 2010.

Topics to be covered are blogging and wikis, social networking, gaming, podcasting, webquests. Some students have already had experience in some of these areas and others are complete novices.