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Topic: Wikis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool
A wiki, which is a Hawaiian word meaning “quick,” is a website that allows people to collaborate and share ideas and information in a series of linked web pages on a specific topic. These web pages can include text, hyperlinks, images, audio, and video. It is one of many Web 2.0 components used to intensify the learning process. Wikis are wonderful tools to help enrich instruction in schools as they facilitate communication and collaboration among the administration and school staff. Educators can share documents and even online productivity applications. The wiki then becomes both a personal and community learning network that benefits the entire school.
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Video Games and Learning
Good video games could be used for learning. This is the main idea produced by the readings on this topic. I believe good video games could have their place in education. When I refer to “good” video games, I am referring to those video game attributes listed by Glee in Good video games and good learning:
1. Identity – Players are required to take on some new identity which draws them into the game.
2. Interaction – Everything the player says and does are part of the “relationship between the player and the world.”
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Learning – I have had a lot of time to think about and discuss learning this semester. I think my own definition of learning is becoming stronger, but I’m starting to think I may never arrive at the perfect definition of learning. So far, here is my personal definition of learning:
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