Sam’s Online Journal

For this task we were suppose to rank each resource according to our own preferences and find at least one more resource. This is what I ended up with:
Rank of 1 (Low Priorty)

Professional Learning Community forums
Teacher Radio

Rank of 2 (Neutral)

Colleagues / peers from UTS
Membership of Professional Association
Paper or web-based e-learning journals
Teachers’ weblogs
Magazines [...]

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Well I am now a member of Tapped In but I have not yet made a posting because when I logged in on Sunday (my only day off) there was no one in the chat rooms. To me, this points out one of the downfalls of online chat rooms. Not everyone is able to successfully [...]

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We had to compare two of the sample AUP’s to the one we created with our group in the wiki.
Kangaroo Flat Public School

*I like the use of a creative heading. It removes the usual stigma of a formal policy being tedious and boring. The yellow background however can be distracting and make the text [...]

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I really like my e-learning metaphor! It is a painting by John Harrington from www.artsforge.com/visionforge/brycelander/subgallery/hope….
This image is symbolic of “Where the River Meets the Sea”. To me this saying describes the tools needed to search the internet. You begin with a whole load of information (the ocean) and then have the opportunity to branch [...]

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The week six activity required us to analyse some websites and rank them according to their level of active engagement. A lot of the sites would not load on these Macintosh computers however I did manage to explore two contrasting websites.
Crocodilian - I would rank this at 1 maybe 2 because the only time [...]

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