MaryLutz22

Saturday, June 21, 2014

I enjoyed working with Netvibes. I put all of my Microsoft Office and Technology blogs in the left column, my news sources in the center column, and fun stuff (sports, comics, etc) in the right column. Check it out here:
http://www.netvibes.com/lutzml#General

I don't know - maybe I messed that up and you can see it at this one:

http://www.netvibes.com/privatepage/1#General

Arggg... I'm so confused. Someone tell me which of these they can see.

3-B-2
Well, it looks like I have a lot of work to do on my Internet Essentials class. In this class I have them create blogs, but I didn't have a great way for them to learn about RSS feeds. I really liked The Old Reader. I think I will have them do a project there since the Google Reader has been discontinued.

In my Intro to Office Support class, each student is required to give an oral report on technology. This semester I will have them subscribe to an RSS feed on that subject as part of the assignment. I think this will be a great way for them to learn about blogs.

I know a lot of people create blogs when going through an illness at caringbridge.org. This saves them time in communicating what is happening to lots of people individually. My daughter had a fellow dance student who was blind and went to China for stem cell injections. Her mom updated us with pictures of Claire and her nurses every day. The girls all sent messages of encouragement. I think this is a great use of a blog.

Friday, June 13, 2014

In my student blog searches today, I found some great examples of college students' blogs from Cornell University. I was very impressed with Ian Perry's blog post on going digital. Ian discusses the advantages of "Going Digital" and buying electronic textbooks.

Our dean seems to think e-books will be bad for our community college and that students will try to print out hundreds of pages in our labs. As a tech-lover, I would love to have each of my students buy a Microsoft Surface computer/tablet at the beginning of their college career and have all digital textbooks. I think that students will save enough money on books that the device will eventually pay for itself.

Here is the link to Ian's blog:

http://blogs.cornell.edu/ianp/

You may want to check out his posts. His blog is a great example that I will use in my classroom when my students start creating their own blogs.

I also commented on Ian's blog to refer him to my blog so he can track my progress in creating my assignment for my students in my OAT 121-Intro to Office Support class. The link to my comments on Ian's blog is:

http://blogs.cornell.edu/ianp/2014/01/31/going-digital/comment-page-1/#comment-24

Thanks to students like Ian, student voices can be heard. I am hoping that the voices of my students will convince my Dean of the benefits of e-books and getting more wi-fi in our building.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

As you can tell, this is my "blog of blogs" that I use for my CIS 164 Internet Essentials class. In Tutorial 5 of this class, my students learn about user-generated content on the web. I require them to create a blog using blogger.com much like we are doing in this class.

I can see the read/write web affecting my classroom in many ways. Some of the web 2.0 tools I use in class are:

YouTube (mostly to view videos in class although I have posted videos in the past)
Prezi to create interactive slides to enhance my lecture classes
Wordle word clouds for introductions at the beginning of the semester
Wikis to teach vocabulary from my chapters and for class reflections
Google sites to create ePortfolios

My college students enjoy all of these activities.