Neverending Technology

   We are being strongly encouraged at school to use Twitter. I had been a hold out, not because I don't see the value in tweeting, but because of some serious time constraints lately. I did finally give in and sign up today. I can be found on Twitter at @TechGailD Join me there and we can tweet away.

LU-Teaching with Technology web conference 3/3/11

Tonight I sat in on the course web conference for my Teaching with Technology class. For the most part the web conferences are interesting and it is a good way for the online students to ask questions of the professor and clarify assignments. Tonight I did not comment, just followed the conversation. As the conference was ending it occurred to me that we all missed an opportunity to share some ideas about various activities involving technology that we are considering using to solve a particular scenario for the class assignment. While we talked about the lesson design and asked about how many activities to include, only one participant asked about any specific activity involving technology. This could have been an excellent opportunity for all of us to brainstorm some ideas and share some resource ideas, but I think we really missed a golden opportunity. We became trapped as our classroom students do in worrying about what was required to fulfill the assignment and not so much about what we could learn from each other.

Conflicting accounts

I have in the past used my school email account to access my blog account. Our school district now has a new partnership with Google and this blog has been switched over to my gmail account as accessing it through my district account is no longer possible. This appears to have caused some issues with people being able to access my posts. If you are encountering any issues, please post a comment so that I can work towards getting my blog back up and running smoothly.
While I understand the district's desire to maintain our professional accounts and to provide us linked services, this particular glitch in communication has caused multiple issues so far. As a requirement for my graduate course I am preparing with teammates a Google Document and a group project page. Since my computer defaults to the school district I can not even post a link without it resulting in anyone trying to use the link to view the project page being redirected to the school district access portal. I am hopeful that this is an issue that can be resolved in the future.