EDUC 628-Spring-08

After reading through Phaedrus’ blogs today to try to get into the meat of the class, instead of surface whinging it, I had to look up Elluminate, Ustream, Tripod, and Etech. http://www.elluminate.com/index.jsphttp://www.ustream.tv/

Tripod.

ETech

I was merely trying to just answer some posted questions, and off I went clicking on every link that was hooked up to the original blog spot from Dr. Lowell’s http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/03/24/a-single-word/ to his

http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/03/17/the-cute-cat-theory/, which were on my gators 5 missed posts that I have not read since being back from vacation.

In general, I as I tried to articulate some high-tech answers, and wasted two hours trying to figure out everything, I realized that perhaps I am not meant to know everything, and in order for me to assess what I am learning as I 21^st Century learner, I am going to have to just say what I think about what I am learning in my own words—which may not be glorious or glorified, but will merely be my own thoughts.  When I was traveling on vacation to and from Florida last week, I had nothing to compare my thoughts to since the Blackjack phone I was using allowed me to post while traveling down I-75, but it wouldn’t pull in the blogs for me to read—-.  My point is that I am learning how I learn and that it is okay to not it all.  I will respond the best.

 First to respond to. http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/03/24/a-single-word/I have wondered how Dr. Lowell assesses his online classes.  I figure he has got to get up at 5 am, and go to bed about 1:30.  I kind-of thought he had some device to read and count the blogs in his gator.  As far as one word that I am thinking of about how the networked classroom affects the learner is perpetuate. Now, I know that the idea centered around assessments and products and processes of the learner, but to tie in what I have learned I will have to say that the mathetics of the networked classroom, for me, is that the learning will perpetuate.  I think that gets a thumbs up on the assessment scale, don’t you.  I hope someone has to think a while to figure out this post, as I have to do all the time.  Do homeschoolers need teaching credentials? http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/03/18/do-homeschoolers-need-teaching-credentials/ I don’t think that homeschoolers should need credentials, and I will have to say that I give them props if they want to stay home and do this.  Personally, I do not like to stay home, and would prefer getting out of the house.  I couldn’t imagine my kids being home 24-7, and not going to school.  I have great kids, but we all need are own lives for about 8 hours a day to be happy.  That’s just my house. In response to http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/03/18/heidelberg-journal-of-religions-on-the-internet/I realized just how much more I was unaware of today, and just how much more I can learn about.  Since I do not go to church very often, these links and journals could be something good for me to explore. In response to http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/03/17/the-cute-cat-theory/ …next post because I have to think about it more.