The Seafarer"

Write what you think about the poem.

Educational Portfolio

I really enjoyed creating my Educational Portfolio. I did have to revert to Weebly, however, because the MPortfolio site was a bit too challenging for me. Tech Support and C-Tools support were both closed, so I will have to manage the MPortfolio at some other date.  It was interesting to review my past educational and travel history - I am usually so busy that I do not have the luxury to review my previous travels to Finland, Ireland, Germany, and Syria. I really like the web format. It is a very organized way to arrange many documents that can express the various sides of my educational and professional experience.

This class, of course, has been a wonderful learning experience for me. I do need many more classes in technology to increase my skills, but my experience here as certainly increased my ability and my confidence in accessing new technology.

Thank you all!
Susan

Tutorial for MPortfolio

I looked at the video tutorial for the MPortfolio. It is very helpful. There are many written descriptions in the tutorial section as well, but I have not looked at them yet. After the initial introduction yesterday, this is a very useful tool. I still do not have a clear picture of how I will arrange my own information, however.

Blogging

I really like blogging. It affords more opportunities for the exchange of ideas. During class time, and even before and after class, we are too busy to exchange information. However, in the blog we can convey our ideas to each other. It is so useful. In fact, I find it a quiet and effective way to exchange information. In one way it is like a reawakening of letter-writing, a lost art! It is also very nice to read the very thoughtful comments to my own blog. Thank you for all of your entries! Susan

Website

This is very interesting and useful to me. The school where I work has a website that only one person can access totally. She is usually so busy that she cannot respond to e-mail or phone calls. It is very hard to manage. I wish that I could use this kind of website which is totally accessible and useful. I hope to work on this, and convince the school to make changes.

SpicyNodes

Today we are going to learn about SpicyNodes, and I hope that this will be something colorful that my students will like. I really liked Hannah's presentation using this technique.

Duplicate Suggestions

In creating activities for the syllabus, I found it interesting that some groups offered the same suggestions about how to address the needs of the class. This to me shows that the idea is important.