Mike’s Musings

On July 16th at 7:30 in the morning I met Shelley Paul at the Building Learning Communities 2008 conference in Massachusetts.  She was presenting “K12 Learning 2.0 – Using the Tools to Learn about the Tools” at the early bird session. This class lived up to everything she presented that day and I thank you, [...]

As I have posted before in other Things, Web 2.0 may not be ready for prime time. As I tried to post about Social Networking with Classroom 2.0, I found that the site was down because of maintenance.  From my experience in the private sector, I find all the down time and problems that I [...]

I am still trying to find the right mix of feeds for my Reader. It appears that I have “RSS Rot” (my term) similar to “link rot” on a website. Some of the feeds that I subscribed to are not very relative or up to date so I am eliminating them. The best part of [...]

Although I like the concept of Pageflakes, I found a lot of inconsistency with trying to get RSS feeds to work. Feeds that I had in my Google Reader didn’t work in Pageflakes, while others did work. Maybe I just need more time to experiment. I still have not come up with the best page [...]

I found Google Docs fairly easy to use being familiar with the Microsoft Office suite. I’m not a MS Office expert but can get around to get tasks done efficiently. If you understand the Office suite you can get around Google Docs without any documentation, just keeping trying things until you find what you need. [...]

I thought I had spent a lot of time on the Podcasting Thing but this Thing with YouTube is addictive. I now understand why our students are always going to proxy avoidance sites to get to YouTube. I checked out videos on tutorials for wikispaces and Alice programming. The videos that show screen shots are [...]