30 July 09

Well yesterday I did my Facebook homework. But I have been on Facebook for awhile and never really realized how much is on Facebook. I certainly know how many people are on it. I have heard from people i havent seen in decades. Its a good social networking place but as far as educational tool it could be tough as there are a lot of distractors on that site. You really have to keep your students attention and focus if you use Facebook.

28 July 09

So i opened another account yesterday, this time its a Ning site. We keep opening all kinds of sites, I am losing track, next up is Facebook. I have a Facebook but dont like it. Too many people!! Not all technology is good. I still dont like cell phones, too many people can reach me all hours of the day and night and work has even given me one so i am at their beckon call. Not a big fan of that, of course i say that being a member of the US Army. Ok so its a little wrong. So to date i have opened: twitter, Ning, PBworks, a second blog, Facebook wow so many passwords to remember!!

26 July 09

So after reading the wikis for online collaboration im still not completely sure i understand wikis fully but, i can see why we are talking about them. It seems a little odd to me thought that to this point in my educational career every instructor i have had tells me to avoid wikipedia and wikis and now i am going to be using it completely. It seems really funny to have teachers say dont use it then i am going to learn how to use it and have my students do the same. But there are the reasons, like editing for anyone, it makes sense but you can still use it as a starting point. What i really liked is the way you can break down a wiki for certain types of learning. As i have been learning lots of students have different learning styles, so three seperate types of wikis can be used for seperate types of learning like the knowledge construction, critical thinking and contextual application. I think i will do an Event Plan that i got from the Contextual Application chapter for my wiki project. So much of what i do in the army is an event so planning is second nature and troops need to learn to plan and plan for everything under the sun. so we shall see how this goes.

First Learning BLog

This is my first learning blog. I have another blog for sports which is a lot of fun. I just say random stuff about sports and friends from all over read it call me and argue, its great. So hopefully with this blog i can do something simillar with educational stuff. We shall see.