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A common theme surrounding the ICT classes this week (and for the duration of the course for that matter) involved embracing technology and using it to your advantage. In class on Tuesday we were introduced to a number of different websites which could be used to create websites for yourself, and told some of the benefits of doing so in order to create an online presence; we also were given examples of the benefits of creating an electronic portfolio. I feel like it is a great idea, since technology is only becoming more prevalent in everyone's lives. By creating a website or e-portfolio online, you have some level of control over what your presence on the web will be, and it can even be used to help you in getting a job. By creating a virtual portfolio, one could give a web address out instead of just a resume and hard copies of documents, which those prospective business associates can then browse at their leisure. By spending some extra time on creating this, it also can help to showcase your own personality and what you are all about even better, in hopes that it can help make you stand out compared to everyone else.
On Thursday we attended a presentation by John Evans from Manitoba Education, who gave us some insight into how we could use MAPLE FOREM to our advantage; however this time it is was about how to collaborate with others instead of how to stand out amongst them. I signed up for the service and tried to browse through the site a little bit; from what I saw it has very high potential for being something that will definitely help in the future. What is great about it is the fact that it allows for open collaboration amongst the educational community, in whatever areas are most suited to you. You can join different groups to share resources and ideas, and to stay informed in what is going on out there in the educational community to help with your own professional development. I think that sharing ideas with others is an invaluable resource to have, and from what I have witnessed, educators are some of the most willing people to share those resources with others. I feel like it is something that simply benefits everybody involved, and it is absolutely great for me to see as I begin to think about gathering resources for the future. By using social networking sites such as MAPLE or even Twitter and Facebook to collaborate and share ideas with other educators, or to just stay informed on ideas and advances in the field, it is a way of embracing the future and is a way of using technology in the right way to become a better, more professionally developed educator in general.
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