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[Dickeson, Sharon L]

Fantastic blog.  Thank you 

 

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mppascoe at bigpond.com
Sent: Friday, 10 July 2009 5:16 PM
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(Apologies for any cross posts).

 

Hi everyone, 

 

Hope you enjoyed the holidays. 

 

I know I certainly did, especially Kevork's great Actionscript 3.0
course, complete with healthy subway lunch, and poker machine building
fun !

 

Recently I have started a Google Blog for the purpose of PD'ing teachers
at my school in Web 2.0. 


I thought it might be useful to share, and the site is located at this
URL: 

 

http://elearnweb2.blogspot.com/  

 

The purpose of this website is to allow anyone to learn a number of Web
2.0 applications. Many of these applications will be useful to teachers
and students alike, as well as web developers, and other users of the
Internet. 
The site contains plenty of education based examples and detailed step
by step instructions. 


Best of all, getting started in these applications is 100% free, and
only requires an email address, and a bit of time learning what to do. 


A number of "Purists" in the IT world will argue that Web 2.0
applications are just noisy, and time wasting distractions, without any
real learning or educational merit.

Certainly the applications are a lot easier to work with than Visual
Basic, C++, Adobe CS3, Actionscript, and other development tools.
However ease of use is not a reason to discredit these tools from being
valuable and useful resources. 

For example, building websites in "Wix" is far easier and rewarding for
beginner students than raw HTML or Adobe Dreamweaver..... so why not use
it.
Even better, it's 100% Free ! 

In the spirit of Web 2.0, feel free to use, download, share, distribute,
etc any of the materials from this site; provided they are used for
strictly non-profit purposes. 

Hope you enjoy Learning Web 2.0,

 

Paul Pascoe   (aka "Passy") 

 

IT / Maths Teacher 

St Francis Xavier College 

Berwick  

mppascoe at bigpond.com

 

http://passyworldofict.blogspot.com/  

 

http://elearnweb2.blogspot.com/  

 

 

 

 

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