The Journey Begins...

My name is Ed Varjassy. I am a student in the EDES 501 course from the University of Alberta. This course encourages students to explore various aspects of Web 2.0. Blogging is one of those features that is to be explored. This blog is the means of communicating our experiences with the various web features we explore.

This is the first blog post that I have created. I think that it could be a lot of fun and my first impression is that it seems to be quite easy to use. I have a lot of work to do in creating this site and I am really just getting started so I encourage you to return often and watch the progress that is made.

I have not really tried out any of the web 2.0 tools that we will be exploring so this will all be new to me. I have watched my wife and kids as they use Facebook but have never set up my own page there. I signed up for twitter last spring but did not spend any time exploring or using it so it is completely new.

I have always been interested and fascinated by the changing face of the internet. I used to teach computer applications and information processing in the high school where I taught and had to try to at least catch up with my students. I have not been in that role for about 4 years now and my knowledge and skills have fallen quite a bit. I saw this class as a means of getting caught. At the start of this school year I was given supervisory duties and responsibilities for our school division e-learning department. Our 4 technology catalyst teachers are all very knowledgeable in these applications and I see this as a way to gain some knowledge so that I can help them encourage appropriate use of these in our school division classrooms.