Wetpaint

I think that I may have done something wrong in posting by website on wiki. I found this need website called Eduation World Professional Development Center www.educationworld.com/a_curr/shore/shore004.shtml while doing research for another class. It helps teachers find constructive ways to handle difficult situations in the classroom. I had to look up information on how to handle a child with hygiene issues. I found a lot of supportive information. Like making hygiene a part of the cirriculum, asking a kindergarten teacher for advice (they usually have to deal with this issue alot), talk privately with the student, providing the student with a checklist, and having items handy in the classroom for children who do not have these things at home. Also having private signals for a child who has a issue (like picking her nose) to remind her that it is not appropriate; without embarrassing her.

Next 5000 days

The idea of total transparency is quite startling. But as I think about it, we really do that now as we tell others our personal information; and it travels from one person to another(gossip). With the web being like a "blackhole"; it makes me think that it is more powerful than humans, obviously is remembers more than we do. It almost makes you wonder if it can take over the world in a "scifi" kind of way. That would be really scary to be controlled by a machine that is smarter than us. It is astonishing that in 2040 the web's processing power will exceed that of the total human brains on earth!! People are becoming so co-dependent on technology (phones, ipods, palm pilots, etc.) that it probably would be great to have all of these connected to one source. But what happens if that one source does break down? Will the world stop? If the web is our only environment it seems to me that all will stop if there is a problem. I realize that it hasn't broken down in the first 5000 days, but itsn't there always that chance?
Tami

Blackboard Tutorials

Thanks, Lisa

I really liked taking the blackboard tutorials. I wish that I had taken it when I took my first online course. I had no idea what a "breadcrumb trail" was. Nor, did I know that you could click on it to take you back to your course's main page. I think that I will be visiting it from time to time to refresh on the shortcuts it provides. Tami