Week 7: Thing 17

I tried this whole wiki thing. It seems like a great idea, so we'll see if I actually do anything with it. I have an educators wiki on wikispaces, but it's a health ed one instead of music. I think it's weird that anybody can go in there and do what they want. It makes me think that kids can sabotage their teachers' wikis. Hopefully not.

Week 7: Thing 16

How cool. Distance learning is the thing now, which worries me a little. I mean, It's great for a class or two, or for teachers to learn new stuff, or for certain degrees...but I hope it's not getting close to the end of the college and university as we know it. There is so much more to school besides...school. And the kids these days are so virtual that they are starting to forget about the art of socialization.
Anyway, the teacher wiki is really neat. It is open, so teachers from everywhere can put their 2 cents in. Through there is teachertube.com , the video spot for teacher ideas. Very cool.

Wow Itunes

ITunes, as many of you know, is a go-to to find just about any kind of music, and now there are podcasts and videos available, some for free.
Have you checked out ITunesU? Click on that little link and find tons of FREE lectures, informational programming, and classes! It's fantastic! I am partial to the videos by Little Kids Rock, but libraries have arts and literature online and universities have lectures and information for the public. My husband's school, Texas Tech, has some great information about the music school and becoming a music major.
How cool!

Week 6: Thing 15

I read through the discovery project. It's true that tech stuff is changing faster than most of us can keep up. It's amazing and inspiring that we can now communicate across the world in real time for free. Much of what is new and upcoming is great. Of course, there are a lot of problems, too, especially with no control over what goes over the internet. I believe in free speech, of course, but when sites like juicycampus.com are allowed to slander people with anonymoty and no repercussions, there is a problem. There is also a problem, as discussed in this week, with peoples' property and copyright laws. I don't know if we can catch up with all of the problems, but there should at least be an agency that tries.

Week 6: Thing 14

Technorati is not my thing. I really could care less about random peoples' blogs.

Week 6: Thing 13

I have a deli.cio.us button now. We'll see how well it organizes all my stuff.

Week 6: Thing 13

Neat sight lookybook. That's something I will be using. I have been wondering about this deli.cio.us thing, so I think I will work with that some more.