Welcome!

Welcome to the Golden Secondary School Technology Blog!

The purpose of this blog is to enable me (your learning coach) to be able to assist you with technology ideas. Also, it is a great forum to be able to share with you some of the amazing and, best of all, FREE sites on the web that can make your lessons come alive. All you need is a computer and projector to access them. Having a SMART board helps for the interactiveness but it is not necessary.

If there is something you'd like to know more about, please email me or leave a post on the blog below and I will do what I can to assist you.

So where do we start? With everyone teaching different subjects it is challenging to be able to give everyone what they specifically need. That's why your feedback and questions will become so important.

Having said that, the best place to start is to give you a sense of what is out there in the World Wide Web that can be used within your own classroom. The past couple of years has seen a huge explosion in what we call Web 2.0 applications. This refers to the next generation of web sites that are out there where interactivity becomes the norm. Instead of just reading for information, we are now able to interact with the websites in a variety of ways. Many of these sites are free - all you need to do is access the website. Whose making these things? No idea but there are a lot of them with hundreds more appearing every month.

Web 2.0 takes it one step further. The best place to find Web 2.0 sites is through the website http://www.go2web20.net/ Here you'll find an archive of hundreds of websites organzied by categories. Some of them are shown in the image above. Each website is briefly described in detail and then if you click on it, it will take you there to check it out. More are added to the list every week and as mentioned before, many are free to use. Take some time to see what's there and next week I'll post some of my favourite sites that I use in my classes.