week nine (finale)

This type of instructional programming is fantastic! I really enjoyed going through the exercises and learning a lot of the different things that were presented. I would suggest adding a video component (not You Tube per se), but one on creating your own videos. I can see many areas for this need: textbook check out, library procedures, library orientation, etc...

One sentence: You haven't lived until you're in the Web 2.0 world.

I would definitely participate in more of these types of activities.

week nine (c)

Pretty cool: eBooks. I wonder if you can download these books into your iPod?

week nine (b)

Podcasts: I think a neat feature for schools that employ podcasts are the daily bulletins that are read. Having a podcast of this would keep parents more informed of what is happening at the school.

week nine (a)

Sure enough, instead of looking for productive videos on the topic at hand, I started looking for music videos. Here's a song that's so kewl:

week eight (b)

Library Thing: Site is very slow. Will have to come back to it later. Tested out one book, and it took forever.

week eight (a)

Tried both Zoho and Google Docs. Created accounts for both, and I think it's really cool. If we can get ourselves over the digital divide nationally, I can see these types of online software to very beneficial to students. I used to have students who would come to school with their research reports typed on a specific word processing software only to find out the school did not have their particular software with which to open the file. Zoho and Docs would certainly eliminate this problem.

week seven

I really like the curriculum idea of note taking and wikis. Students who are absent from a class can access these notes. The teacher can review these notes to make sure students are taking the correct notes so they are learning the correct materials. I had tried a wiki with a group of friends. We were planning a dinner, and I used the wiki to see who wanted to go, where they wanted to go, and the time and date they were available. It worked out really well because everybody was able to post to it, thereby taking the middle man (me) out of the process of having to organize the event.