Week 4

This week I have been writing, writing, writing - wait, isn't this a technology class?!?! I think more time should be spent on actively creating, building, exploring & a tad less writing. Really!

Week 3

This week I have bee playing catch up as I spent many days sick, sick, sick. I have many friends that are teachers, none of which have websites. Now I know why :) I actually have a background in multimedia & know my way around a computer pretty well, but creating my own website has proved challenging. In search of the best webpage creator I tried iWeb, Google, Comcast and OfficeLive to make my own webpage. All of which were confining and not as user friendly as I thought they should be. I am not thrilled with my creation, but I got er done at last!

Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks)

What I Want For My Children

A Vision of Students Today

Week 2

I appreciate the clarification of the extremely unclear assignment due dates, etc. Reviewing everything this evening, I was still unclear, however. I am also sick with the flu, as is my daughter so perhaps a little fuzzy myself :) I do greatly appreciate the teacher's prompt replies to email questions, concerns and her flexibility.

College - Week 1

Every week, you will be giving your reaction to how this and all your other classes are going for the previous week. 

Directions in this class have been unclear and not simple and easy to understand. Thus, my reaction to week 1 is that I don't need to start this until week 2 :)

Using blogs in the classroom

My reaction to Don't Feed the Trolls could be summed up in one phrase, "do unto others as you would have others do unto you." Generally I would expect students to know the "rules of the road" if they are going to be posting on a blog. I would not want to police the trolls, but may look for other ways such as approving comments, etc. before posts could be made public. I thought to look at Mr. Harbeck's blog next and immediately saw how a blog could be useful in my own classroom. I liked the layout and basic features. 

Suddenly my mind was racing and  I was thinking what is the first thing I would post on my own classroom blog? I would probably note on my own blog the simple yet powerful notion from Richardson's article: Responsible, productive citizens don't always agree - but when they disagree, they always do so civilly. No, no I don't want to start with content, what is a top tag I wonder. Widgets... How do I...?