Final Post-Reflections

I have now signed on to everyone's blog and have made my comments to several posts:
Sheena:- Higher education in a Web 2.0 world and Digital Natives debate
Jean: Higher Education in a Web 2.0 world and Digital Native debate
Martina: Learning styles and ICT trends
Simon: Learning styles and ICT trends.
Vlad: Higher Education in Web 2.0 World(I think!)
This has been an interesting way to reflect on what we have done during the week. I have gone up a very steep learning curve in my struggles to come to grips with Web 2.0 technology. I am still not really sure of how I can incorporate it in the teaching I am doing at present . Having an increased awareness is helpful and there may be occasions in the future when I may be able to make use of it.
The future of ICT appears rosy. Mobile computing is obviously already a fact of life with the availability of so many hand held devices which are internet ready and may be used on the run. Augmented reality, ebooks, gesture based computing etc is predicted for future use but there are already so many applications of these modalities which are in use in many disciplines even now.
As teachers, we need to try and embrace the technology and use it to augment how we teach. Tertiary institutions have to change and we have to change with them or else get left behind.
This is my last post-thanks to all who have read my musings!