Last Week

Last week was a very important week for us to learn about new skills in which we can apply to classrooms.

I was quite impressed and surprised by the Webpage group. I remember making pages for bands years ago with the annoyance of html and tedious redundancy. However, as I am beginning to truly find out, the Mac is all about making lives easier. The ease that went into creating that webpage was very encouraging for myself, I know, to have the faith in myself to build another webpage. I think you guys did a great job and the way you presented made everyone I hope feel like they are also capable of creating their own webpage.

Podcasts were quite interesting. I never viewed one before the group went wednesday and now I can see the impact they have the potential to create. It can as the groups discussed keep students up to date and be an avenue for absent students to utilize to make up work. It can also just act as supplemental teaching. Since time restraints often make the life of a teacher harder the podcast can be another place to display a lesson so you don't have to fall behind.

I was immediately intrigued with the my43things.com aspect of the social bookmarking group although the other bookmarking sites did offer great interest as well. I just thought that would be a fun thing to do for students inside and outside of academia. I was very surprised by Librarything and the seemingly endless avenues to be explored through that website.