I have been sharing my experiences with Web 2.0, e-learning and m-learning (mobile learning) since early 2006 through a range of different sites.
Below is just some of my better known web sites and I’ve set up a customized Google Search on my wiki site to make it easier for you to search content across all my websites.
The Edublogger
The Edublogger is the most popular of my sites; it’s well known in the educational blogging community. I’m responsible for editing this blog and it was set up by Edublogs to support the educational blogging community.
The Edublogger is A blog that helps educational bloggers with emerging technologies in education!
PLN Yourself wiki
My PLN Yourself Wiki was set up to provide people with central location for resources and “how to” guides so that others can start building their own PLN.
Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) are all about using web tools such as blogs, wiki, twitter, facebook to create connects with others which extend our learning, increases our reflection while enabling us to learn together as part of a global community. PLNs increase our opportunities to ask questions and receive help compared to our normal daily face-to-face interactions.
Mobile Technology in TAFE wiki
My Mobile Technology in TAFE wiki site was set up to share all my “How to” tips for Web 2.0 and mlearning. Basically it’s ended up being my site for gathering detailed information that is too lengthy to fit into my blog posts.
It’s a popular resources for people wanting to learn how to get the most out of using the tools.
Web 2.0 “how to” includes:
- Use blogs (Beginners)
- Use Blogs (Intermediate)
- Subscribe to Blogs
- Use del.icio.us
- Use Ning
- Create movies using Movie Maker
- Play movies on PCs
- Share PowerPoint presentations online
- Transfer videos onto PC
- Set up wikis
For example m-learning topics include:
Mobile Technology in TAFE Podcasts
I originally started out as a podcaster, not a blogger, and most of my audio and video podcasts are hosted on my podomatic podcast site.
My most popular podcast, so far, are:
- Audio: Adam Frey, co-founder of Wikispaces, talks about using wikis in education (15 mins).
- Video: Adam Frey, co-founder of Wikispaces, talks about using wikis in education (10 mins).
- Audio: Using PDAs to teach practical skills.
- Audio: Students thoughts on using PDAs.
You can subscribe to my podcasts using this podcast feed.
History of my sites
Below is a timeline with the history of development of my web sites.
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Linh
// Jul 3, 2008 at 2:25 pm
hey sue,
i have a question..so you are the creator of edublogs? I think you mentioned that but i really really wanted to be sure if you don’t mind me asking so randomely. If you are, than i think thats super cool because my english teacher had recommended us using edublogs so when i read this i felt a little deja vu.
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Twitter and Building Your Personal Learning Network | Mobile Technology in TAFE
// Oct 7, 2008 at 10:35 am
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Need Help Building Your Personal Learning Network (PLN)? | The Edublogger
// Dec 29, 2008 at 8:22 am
[...] The idea of this site is to provide a central location for “how to” guides so that you can start building your own PLN based on the 5 top tools as recommended by responses of over 160 people to my online survey. Most of the resources on the site are compiled from information from my different web sites. [...]
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Are You Getting The Most Out Of Pages On Your Blog? | Sue Waters's Blog
// Feb 23, 2009 at 3:06 pm
[...] My Other Sites [...]
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Sahana
// Jun 5, 2009 at 5:46 am
hi its sahana again,
I just wanted to leave a comment so here it is. Bye!!!
ps: i put new blogs on my blog roll, check them out and probably leave a comment. they are the daily haily and jordyns jumping jaguar. thanks!!!!!!!!!
-Sahana
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Blogging Writing Course Creator
// Jun 9, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Sue, I’d like your opinion on something.
First of all, congratulations and thank you for creating such great resources on how to use many of the web2.0 materials.
As an educator, I’m sure that you are aware of the difference between reference materials and education. Education is essentially experiental. While some people in some ways, can learn vast amounts from articles and other reference materials, most people need more of a course to really learn and absorb skills and information.
It was partially on this basis that we created blogwritingcourse.com. It was also partially because we had a series of successful writing courses for students and some parents were asking us for adult creative writing courses. So the blogging course was created both as a sort of creative writing course for adults and to see if by presenting commonly available information in an experiental format, we were doing something useful.
The results are mixed.
Good results – People who take the course, love it. They’re grateful, they find it empowering, they create blogs that they’re proud of, they are immediately part of a community of other like-minded online bloggers (their classmates and the alumni).
Problem – We only run the course 2x a year and each times, it’s a total pain trying to fill up a session with 20-30 people. Partially this is due to the fact that we don’t really market to adults, partially it’s due to the fact that we’ve never really built a good marketing channel for it.
You are in touch with many educators trying to learn. Do you think a course, rather than just resources, would be worthwhile? Feel free to take the free part of our blogwritingcourse.com to see what we’re thinking about. I’m torn between updating the course with much more web2.0 materials and amrekting it more broadly. Or leaving it as is.
I’d also be interested in someone who wanted to partner with us on it.
Woops, this blog comment turned into something else.
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Sue Waters
// Jun 11, 2009 at 10:27 am
Hi John, the challenge you face is that there are quite a few courses available online. Many of them are free others are paid for. Definitely a blogging course done well is worthwhile but that doesn’t mean that people are always willing to pay for it.
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