Hello to the World~!!!

Greetings to India, Korea, Western and Eastern USA, Australia, Greece, Central African Republic, Singapore, Malaysia, Kuwait and New Zealand!!

Since I visited Sarah's blog, I'd learnt to add a gadget called the 'ClustrMap' which records the visitors from the parts of the world. So far, there had been nearly 80 visitors since this was created, from 10 different countries!!!



I had known, and learnt that the Internet is a powerful tool to expose oneself to the globe, but this is real experience of what I have heard and learnt. This is AMAZING!!!I am also aware that some people make living out of blogging... I'm still not convinced that this is true but one day, I hope to experience some financial benefit as well.

This 'e-Learning in Practice' paper had certainly opened up my eyes to a whole new world of 'Web 2.0'. It was a huge learning curve, I must admit, but it was worth it. I still got to finish off my 2nd assignment, though... Hopefully it will be over soon... then... its... HOLIDAY!!!! YAY!!!

Have a great holiday everyone!

Finally, a Blog of my own!!!

Blog...
I had never thought it would enter into my life...

As a teacher, I didn't want to share any part of my life with the students - including the 'e' side of my life such as my Facebook. I did a good job keeping my life well secluded from the students by 'ignoring' friend requests.

However, doing this e-Learning in Practice opened up my eyes to a whole new world!
I had been using educational technology well in my class - or at least I thought I did. As a 'youngster' amongst staff at my school, I was the 'technology wizard' who frequently used different technologies available at the school.

I knew the definition of e-Learning, or should I say, I knew 'a' definition of e-Learning. Use of technology in education - namely, at this time of history, computers and Internet. But I never thought Blogs and Wikis would be beneficial in teaching and learning!! I always thought these were for personal and social use - and that was one of the reason for me not to get familiar with it to seclude myself from the students!! But now I see the whole new side of blog and wiki...

I have decided to call this an 'e-Classroom'. If learning can happen through 'e', why not a classroom in 'e'? I'm so excited to see where this is going to lead me to. I have to admit, that I am a bit agitated to be out of my comfort zone, but hey, I ain't gonna get anywhere if I don't get myself out of it!

So, here it is.

WELCOME TO THE FASCINATING e-CLASSROOM!!!