SWOT

 ||  * must be current
 * **Strengths ** || **Weaknesses ** ||
 *  * Collaboration - Share ideas and articulate ideas
 * Applying student knowledge to an educational environment
 * Stepping beyond the classroom
 * Decentralises learning
 * Engages all types of learners through different media
 * A non-threatening environment
 * Relevance
 * Current
 * Broadened audience from local to global
 * Helps to develop skills and encourage users confidence to “have a go”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Virtual experience verses physical experience
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Specific to individual classes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Motivating and engaging
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Provides sense of ownership
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Assessment and evaluation tool
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instantaneous posting
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life long learning
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Changing role of teacher – facilitator
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyone able to contribute – good leveller for students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forum for all students to input
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">limitations of moderation process
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">accountability
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">time consuming (potentially extending teaching hours further)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">increased workload – particularly in early stages of implementation, moderation and maintenance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">cyber bullying
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">access to computers. Internet speeds
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Virtual experience verses physical experience
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instantaneous posting
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whole staff knowledge and training
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Responsibility – whose is it if there are problems?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Money for maintenance/training/resources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Critics and personnel who resist change
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">DET access/portal problems ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opportunities ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Threats ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"> * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">to engage a variety of students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">students can use it to construct their own knowledge
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">provision of lessons and revision material
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">share out work and publish together – collaborative development of learning/tasks
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">students can assist each other
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Virtual experience verses physical experience
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publish to a larger audience
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Collaboration
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connectedness
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning communities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allows for individual differences and creativity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Access to information, interesting and engaging
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Increase opportunity to develop ICT skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take staff out of their comfort zone
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teacher becomes the learner
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vehicle for change
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be up there with the students – teachers ‘catch up’ || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"> * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">inappropriate content and contact
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">attendance issues at school
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">teachers are no longer needed
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Virtual experience verses physical experience
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parental attitude – their child’s personal space invaded
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Staff attitudes/capabilities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hardware
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Privacy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Child protection
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bullying/intimidation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Community attitudes ||