The weebly experience

Constructing the website 'elearning' felt innovative, creative and a good idea as an introduction to websites. There are many opportunities here for students be creative and innovative. A website can be something that introduces learning to students. I see a lot of potential in students creating a website to introduce/present many aspects of their learning to other key personnel. While the Blog and Wiki are interactive and collaborative, I see the website as more individual for students. The website is an excellent resource tool for teachers to introduce a subject and many different layers of learning for students to access from one website, for example introducing food chains is a wonderful visual topic for student to access from a website as well as making their own website as evidence of their knowledge and understanding.

Click this link to view my website and to create your own.

http://catherine-elearning.weebly.com/

The Concept Map

This is an example of a concept map. This concept map was constructed using bubble us.com. Concept mapping or graphic organisers assists students to organise information in a cognitive process. Teachers can assist in organising the concept map by organising the pattern around a word. The concept map begins with a concept e.g. ELearning and the students then organise the information under headings that grow like tree branches or in this case bubbles. It is a tool for organising declarative knowledge (Marzano & Pickering, 2006) as well as brainstorming.

My Wiki experience

We (my partner Surene and I) have joined the Mackayelearninggroupwiki and experienced the difference in the functions by changing our groups using the edit save buttons - the main difference between the Wiki and the Blog is the ability for the contributors to change the content by editing.
This concept map brainstorms the functions and learning connections that are features of the Wiki. As demonstrated by the map, the Wiki promotes collaborative learning, communication and knowledge management amongst it many functions. The Wiki is a powerful tool for collaborative learning as demonstrated in this YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdq83SWTnOM

The best example of a Wiki is Wikepedia.

Learning styles

This is my learning style graph.

I think that my personal learning style depends on my mood and experiences at the time of doing the test!

Knowing your student's learning style is an important factor in planning learning for a class. It is the basis for the design of instruction and is one of the factors that should be profiled in the profiling phase of the Learning Management Plan designed by Lynch, Smith and Doe ( 2006). This tool is engaging and students and teachers would benefit from completing the experience.

e.learning

Well, here I go. My first ever blog. A very simple set up experience - thank goodness! I hope it all works.