wiki (3)

Dan: Naturally, I lift all of my lectures from Wikipedia. Despite that, I've never contributed to one or used them in my classes. I do use the wiki function in Moodle to keep 'hidden' notes for me in most of my classes. Like Bruce, I've used Moodle for group discussions, but I've yet to venture out from there. I'm not sure how I'd want or need to use wikis in my classes at this point. I want to be open to using it, but I also want to mindful of not letting the technology drive the pedagogy.

Cloud Computing

While I've been aware of GoogleDocs, I realize that I've missed the opportunity to use them more. For instance, my department went back-and-forth and back-and-forth about an APC proposal earlier this year. It would have been sooo much easier with GoogleDocs. And I often share documents with research students and work-study students using a shared folder on the I-drive. But that seems so much more cumbersome to go through multiple layers of the network to get to the folder -- not to mention the added headache of signing onto the network if I'm off-campus. However, as I set up a trial shared document to for my 13 Things exercise, I did not want to annoy people with getting an invite from me, yet I could not figure out how to add their names to the share list with out an invitation being issue.

what? 2.0

I viewed all the videos that I saw on the '13 Things' web site, but it's still not clear to me what 'web 2.0' is. Thus, I cannot say what interests me about web 2.0, since I still don't know what it is. Maybe that will be become more apparent as I progress through the next twelve 'things'.

[Earlier this month, I was back in Hanover, New Hampshire, where I did my graduate work. Theodor Geisel (a.k.a., Dr. Seuss) was an undergrad there, so Seuss themes regularly pop up. As a matter of fact, when I was in grad school, there was a movement to change the mascot from the vague 'Big Green' to the ecologically-oriented Seuss character, 'Lorax'. Unfortunately , the transition never happen--probably due in part to licensing legalities. In any case, this year, 'Thing One' and 'Thing Two' ('Cat In the Hat' characters about whom I had forgotten) t-shirts were seemingly all the rage. Perhaps we could create 'Thing Thirteen' characters and t-shirts to commemorate the '13 Things @ Coe College' summer?]

First Post

Interestingly, for someone who talks a lot, I'm stymied when it comes to writing. Thus, I have no idea what to discuss for this first blog. I guess I'll just start with a question: At the bottom of this box in which I'm entering text, there is a field for 'Labels for this post'. What's the difference between that and the title (which is entered in a field above this text box)?