Welcome to the Online Learning Tools Blog!

This blog is going to be your gateway into using web 2.0 tools for online learning. Throughout the course of this class students will use this blog as a place to communicate to the instructor, find resources being used in class and to showcase classroom activities to the parents. Each student will be responsible for setting up a feed reader, and subscribing to this blog in order to stay informed on assingments and class information.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

The classroom calendar and current event blog posts.

Each student will be responsible for posting a short blog entry on the classroom blog. These blog entries can be of any subject of the students choice. Please take a second to check the calendar to the right. This is the area where I will post names and dates of the "Current Event" blog entries. Each student will be responsible for having their post completed 10 PM (EST) of their assigned date.

Assignment 1 - HTML and the Internet

For your first assignment everyone is to watch the following short video. This video covers topics like the internets structure, the language behind web-pages and how to write simple HTML in order to embed pictures and links. When your finished watching the video go to the class blog and create a post. In this post tell a bit about yourself, include a picture of something of interst as well as a link to another page where we can find more information if we would like.


Intro to the internet video


Classroom blog