Social networking to gain social skills?

I decided to try something different from what I had tried before for my project for ECI 832 this term.  I wanted to see if I could set up a blog site for some of my learning support students that have various forms of autism, mostly asperger syndrome, to use for future planning and social…

Master teacher or master learner?

I pondered what direction to take my on-line PD for ECI 831.  I had already done one post a few weeks ago after watching a presentation on media literacy by Michael Wesch and was looking for a different direction. Earlier this week I was involved in a few conversations about the new RTI, Response to…

Should we teach digital citizenship?

I had  difficulty getting started on my blogs this week, mainly because I was suffering from what I call WAD-Web Attention Disorder.  I am so easily distracted from my cause.  I can't help myself, I go to search and read about something and pretty soon I am web miles away from my starting point and…

Taming the technology beast!

Does anyone else ever feel like their on-line world is getting out of control?  I am starting to feel like my bookmarks have created a life of their own.  I have so many projects on the go and for every project it seems like I have 100 ideas and 100 links.  When I first started…

Am I out, because I am old?

I don't know whether I am having a sensitive week or not, but I am starting to take offense to  some of the blogs  I am reading that imply because I am old, I am not tech savvy or willing to learn to be. Now I would not describe myself as tech savvy, but technology…