Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Lesson 3

It tooks me a while to understand and then get RSS set up. Now that it is set up, I can see where it will be very useful as was stated you don't have to go in and click on each name. I really want to get more experience on this technology.

I would like to set this sort of thing up for some of my classes. This would provide students with the opportunity to utilize a new technology which would help to meet the SD Technology standards, while learning material for the class.

All of the links that were on the website were easy to use. I signed in then clicked on the various blogs.

I searched for blog sites various ways: 1) I went to my favorite sites and checked for blog rights, and 2) I did a search on Google asked for blogging sites. I was pleasantly surprised that some of my favorite sites were not bloggers.

Some blogsite that I found to be interesting were: www.heavygames.com, www.cnn.com, www.readersdigest.com. I would think any of the news sites would be good, especially with the economic situation and the election coming up.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Lesson Two 2nd post

It was very easy to set up the blog. It was no harder than setting up a new email account.

Blogs can be used by many teachers in their classrooms as students can add their data, thoughts, etc and all the other class members can read the posting and comment on it. This will be a partial solution to the use of resources.

Lesson Two first post

The easiest of the 7 1/2 habits for me will be view problems as a challenge. I like to learn especially if it is something that I am interested in and technology is very interesting to me.

The hardest of the habits will be play. I often get too serious about my learning because I want to do well and understand all the information completely.
I am just getting started with the Challenge. I am looking forward to working through this as the Introduction was inspiring.