Thing 11

This was fun! And super easy! It's also a great way to assess the students. You could post an exit question to the class blog that each student has to answer and then you know what percentage of your class is getting the information. Good feedback on teaching!
Also, at the end of the semester rather than having them write on paper they could take a survey for class feedback!

Sushi Poll

Thing 10

Uhhhh yeah. I am NOT a tweeter. I like facebook and feel that it is MUCH more engaging with video and pictures and conversation. Twitter is just a random flow of random. Not very reciprocal. I couldn't find friends and didn't really now where to start. I thought about tweeting Rick Sanchez from CNN because I know that's his thing and well... he IS Rick Sanchez ;). But I did find a friend of mine from New Mexico who is a really good cyber friend, and he's everywhere on the web.

Thing 9

This thing was really cool and very important for what I teach. I thought that Creative Commons was grea,t and will be a huge asset to my classes where we do a lot of digital imaging, like in Computer Art. This way the images used will be high res and not have to be purchased! The kids will love it. The photo students may also really love to share their work, I know they already do through Flickr and Facebook, but maybe it would be fun to assign a class collaboration on an image. Lots of ideas flowing from that one.

Also, the reading was a tad taxing but I did find the video part interesting in the end as one of the areas of growth. My colleagues and I are actually attending a video and production workshop through Education Cnnection this summer in hopes of incorporating video as an art form in our department... so I guess we are right on track! I bookmarked that page in the document and will be using it.