Saving important files?

Where should you save important files such as; portfoloios, resume, cover letters, recomendations, large papers or projects?

Schools spending money on technology?

Please read the article below and comment.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/maine-schools-to-spend-200000-on-ipads-for-kindergartners/

Class screencasts.

Please post your URL from screencast.com below. Make sure to add a title above your URL.

Screencast examples:

Todd's showing how to use MyMathLab:

http://www.screencast.com/t/BOxyz2nhjb

Todd's showing a math examples worked out:

http://www.screencast.com/t/CzUvVh9SI 

Author's example about Wikipedia works:

http://jonudell.net/udell/gems/umlaut/umlaut.html

Powerpoint narrated example:

http://www.docott.com/files.141/screencasts/chapter1/1.1.basic.chem.definitions/1.1.basic.chem.definitions.html

Student animation example:

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/c6VhDvhx6

Screencasting?

How might you use screencasts as a teacher or in your chosen career?

Social Bookmarking?

How might you use a social bookmarking site in your future career?

RSS?

The author of our book states that if you use only one of the technologies in his book you should use RSS.Why do you think he says this?

Survey?

Please take the mid-semester survey below:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BFWCLC8

Please post your survey links below in the comments.

Teacher feedback?

How have your teachers in the past solicited  feedback from you about their course? Were there some techniques you found better than others? Why? Were there some that you didn't care for? Why?
Do you have some of your own ideas about how feedback could be accomplished for the betterment of the class?

How can we use Wikis?

How might you use a Wiki in your classroom with your students? If your not going to be a teacher, how might you use a Wiki in the rest of your college experience?

What is a Wiki?

Take a look at some of these examples to help answer that question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/wikijunior
http://flatclassroomproject2006.wikispaces.com/
http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/
http://mrsmaine.wikispaces.com/
http://welkerswikinomics.wetpaint.com/
http://planetmath.org/
http://213.251.145.96/

 How might you use wikis in your classroom?

How do you know if a blog is good?

How do you know if you can trust what is published in a blog? How can you know if a blog is a good one to share with your students?

Read the following article that the author references on page 37, in the third paragraph, to help thinking about that question.

http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=4

What is a blog?

Why should we use blogs for ourselves and or our students? Here is a video made by a couple of teachers who have started blogging. I think it may help answer that question as well as others?

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1480925