Using technology in the classroom wk 2

Since I am a technology education teacher, you would think that all of this is second nature to me, but its not. I have been working to update my curriculum and scatter in technology where I can for the last two years. I have come a long way and I and my co-workers are proud of my progress.
The things we have begun working with in class may also prove to be valuable additions to my classroom. The social bookmarking has already paid off, since I have had two computers crash this week and delicious has enabled me to still access all of the sites I needed for class. AWESOME! I have also enjoyed the ease of accessing these websites from home and work on multiple computers. I will share this with my students for sure.
Online storage is another issue. I have used moxy while in college in order to share large files with classmates. It was very beneficial then and still would be today. I do take video of some class projects and online storage would be an easier way to share those videos than burning copies for every student!
The discussion on how to use the web cam last night during class was interesting to me as well. Being able to share the classroom and do distant learning with a student who is sick or maybe even with someone in a different school would be really neat. The best thing that I thought of for my students is to record class discussions and post them on the internet for students who miss class, not doing things live, but using the web cam to record and share later.
I did also find some personal interest in the browser comparison. The last two weeks I had trouble logging on to our classroom and accessing my email on my brand new laptop. This was frustrating as you can imagine at 8:00 when class starts and the new computer with web cam doesn't work! I found that by switching from Internet Explorer to Firefox, I was able to access all the sites and everything went smoothly from there. So in the future I will share different browsers with my students so that they know they have options.

week one

I have had a rough start to this program! I'm not overwhelmed by the technology, but it is a lot of new information at once. I was confused about how to log in both this week and last week. Once I figured it out this week, I had computer issues. Last night at 8:05 I was running two laptops, neither of which were logging on to the ning. My brand new laptop has a web cam on it and it wouldn't load the site, while my three year old laptop was just plain having a melt down. When I finally logged on I was so mad, I don't know if I picked anything up from class. It was very nice to be able to watch the recording of class from start to finish again today. As far as my experience with this techy stuff, my degree is in Technology Education, but my expertise is not in computers or communications, it is automotives. This will be a learning experience for me, but I have been updating my curriculum and adding the things we learn in this program will fit very well with the direction I am heading in. I'm not sure what is meant by a web link, but I do have a prior blog on the website of the company I work for part-time Bob Burns Golf. (www.bobburnsgolf.com) and the blog is (http://bobburnsgolf.wordpress.com/behind-the-blogger/). We just revamped our website and our blog and I am not even listed as an author yet, but the new website is an improvement. That's all for now here's to hoping my technical difficulties don't continue next week!