Enduring the craziness!

Thank you, 8am class, for putting up with all of the crazy stuff we did today! You are amazing!

First, let's review what we did:
1) We explored UEN to see the resources available to you there. This site is sponsored by the state office of education for us to use as educators, so take advantage of these great resources.
2) You created personal UEN pages (as an alternative to blogs) to use with your classes. The address for these pages is http://my.uen.org/###### where everyone's number is different. You can find your number by logging in and looking beneath your name.
3) We added to our iGoogle pages, particularly adding the Google Notebook gadget. I also asked you to add another tab and explore some of the gadgets available or even create your own. We also added the link to uen and to your uen page to your Bookmarks gadget.
4) We set up our blogs. See the blogging video below to learn how to do this. Your first post should be an introduction to you. I'd also love to know why you chose your content major. Send the URL for your blog to me in an email (cox.uvsc@gmail.com).
5) We explored gabcasting. Watch the gabcasting video below to learn how to do this. We then posted a gabcast of an idea for using gabcasting in our classrooms to our blogs. To learn how to do this, come see me!

The homework for this week is as follows: Explore UEN and find 3 interesting resources you could use in your class that are NOT core curriculum or lesson plans (examples: interactives, videos, etc.). Post a message on your blog that describes those resources and provides the link to your public UEN page (http://my.uen.org/######).

You should also begin your research on the effective use of technology in education. In the next four weeks, you should find 3 articles on this topic. I would love to see a mix of subject-specific and general educational information. You may also use one magazine or newspaper article. The rest should be from scholarly journals. We will use these later in the semester to justify our use of technology with the curriculum.

If you have any questions, please feel free to post them as comments here or use email, Google Talk, or the good old phone!