Educational technology is a rapidly evolving and ever-changing tool. Educators require access to and a working understanding of the latest trends and
technologies to meet the needs of today's learners. This course intends to develop a framework which will enable today's educator to develop the
knowledge and skills necessary to integrate these tools into their own classroom(s) utilizing open-source technologies.
This includes exposure to and practice with blogs, wikis, RSS, chat (text, voice, and video), social networking, social bookmarks, picture galleries, and/or other online applications leading to the development of user friendly, well-designed, and effective web communications.