When I was choosing which tool to use I had a difficult time. “Oh how should I tell my digital story. Let me count the 50 ways”. Initially I was going to try a timeline in which I told my life story and then in turn was going to get my students to create. But […]

Even though we are still narrowing down our points I need to vent. I have worked on a wiki in a few other classes and actually have really begun to appreciate and enjoy this social networking tool. However, today I found a fault. First of all, if you do not decide how to structure it […]

I have tried to access both WebCT and Moodle on my iPhone in the past week (I wanted to show my family that I created a table using HTML code…they thought I was strange). I found it was fairly easy to access, however I don’t think I’d ever use a mobile device for my course. […]

My web-blog is strict. I think having to log-in for students can be restricting, however this is how to keep track of my students. I think having Moodle as a free program opens up my restrictions. However, I still consider the socio-economic status of students. How can we expect to expand into 21st Century learning […]

I have recently been able to TOC in a digital visual arts course for a week in a middle school. The grade 6s are working in photoshop, creating collages, photo-crashing squirrels, and eventually will turn their own faces into Avatars (the blue movie version). The grade 7s are doing photography, taking photos and using photoshop […]

In my other course, we are creating a wiki, and since my group has not started yet, I thought I’d use the information from this toolkit and try to set up our page. I was able to set up the page, but it took me a bit longer than I expected. In particular, I am […]

For myself, I have been using blogs in my classroom for a number of years. I find making blogs very simple to make and a quick way to get students working collaboratively online. I also find that blogs are great to create a blended learning environment. I have used googleblogs mostly in the past (as […]

When looking at the social software sites (Flickr, Delicious, World of Warcraft and Twitter) I wanted to look at two sites I was a member of and two that I was not. I was surprised about the things that I found. The Terms of Service link is always available at the bottom of the screen, […]

It’s hard to not think of Justin Timberlake, but I think synchronous communication is pushing those “anti-social” computer ideas far, far away. I have mostly had experience in chatting using text and a few video sessions last semester for a group project using Elluminate. I wanted to try wimba, as I have signed up for […]

I recently was creating a website for my Wedding next year. The purpose of this site is so our guests can go and get all of the up-to-date information needed (as we are having a destination wedding in Disneyland). Now I thought I was pretty good at avoiding common website errors, like “under construction”, all […]