The Joys and Dangers of MET
Joys and dangers can arise from any MET forum discussion. The joys are the myriad of new tools I learn about. The danger — the amount of time I spend playing with those new tools. Within the first week of the MET course ETEC565A, I have been introduced to a few promising Web 2.0 applications. The time I spent play around with them … well … flew by. Here are a few of the things:
- Jing — Snap a picture of your screen, or record video of onscreen action. It’s free.
- zotero — A wonderful researching tool that assists with note taking, citing sources, and creating bibliographies. Just try it.
- voki — Create a speaking avatar. Not sure of how to use this one, yet. But it looks interesting.
- Adobe Buzzword — Visit Adobe’s Acobat.com. It’s all the buzz. Seriously. This may be better than Google Docs.
After playing with these, it may be interesting to see how each one fits into Bates and Poole’s SECTIONS framework. I’ll comment more about this later.
Bates, A. W. and Poole, G. (2003) Effective Teaching with Technology in Higher Education: Foundations for Success. New York: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.
