I found a great site today called theloop.com.au. It is an online resource that allows networking amongst creative industries. Employers can look for new staff, potential employees can look for jobs but perhaps most importantly students can upload their portfolios. This is a fantastic way to get senior students to think outside the 4 walls of the classroom. A quote from Kristine Kopelke's blog on the Learning Place explains it perfectly 'One of the best things about the web is how we can use it to support students to look outward. The web provides our students with unprecedented opportunities to see what others are doing and to use this as a guide to inform their own learning goals'.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Now I am having a dilemma, are wikis or websites more valuable as learning tools. My heart says wikis but my brain says websites. Perhaps it is the best to get the most out of both tools by using a wiki as the central elearning space where students can post the links to their online portfolio, there can be a resource page that everybody contributes to. This is where links like theloop.com.au could sit. So I guess by using Wikis as my tool of choice from Group 1 I'm not completely pushing websites out the back door. Wikis are simply more interactive and students can upload, download and link to websites from this space.
Good talking with you... thanks for reading my thinking out loud
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