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This week in class we listened to someone speak who is a police officer in Memphis. It was neat to hear all of the ways technology has evolved the way he does his job and it was really cool hearing some of the stories he's amassed over the years. We also went over some different resources to use when building a website. This week our assigned reading was the last two chapters in "LOL...OMG". The second to last chapter (chapter 10) talks about your digital citizenship. It talks about how what you say in tweets or facebook posts online are only part of your citizenship. It is also how you act and convey yourself to other people. You are in control of how you act online. You may not be able to control everything everyone posts about you, but you can control how you respond to those things. The next chapter talks about our reputations online and anonymity. I agree with the author when he says there is still good use for staying anonymous online. I get that you can say whate

It was a humbling week for the Flyers. No wins in our last three games although we did manage to get a point out of two of them by forcing overtime. This week in class we had out second app smack down. There were a lot of interesting apps and it was really neat to hear about all the new innovative apps at our fingertips. We also were introduced to the world of augmented reality. Augmented reality and Virtual reality are both really impressive new technologies that will change the way we do a lot of things in our lives. I think it will especially be a good tool for educators. Just thinking from some of the things we saw in class, but you could have students wear augmented reality glasses and project molecules in front of the class. It sounds like an immersive experience that will help students learn. Our reading for this week was chapter seven of "LOL...OMG". This chapter discusses reputation management. There are seven key steps to protect your reputation that they talk a

Midterms are upon us. Been a real busy week. Apart from that the Flyers have won five of their first eight games for the first time since 2011-12 so it's been a great start so far. This week we had a short week in class. We just discussed some presentation tools that can be beneficial to making your presentation more memorable and entertaining. We then used those tools to create a slideshow about what we are doing for Halloween. I watched The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown a few days ago so I am stoked for Halloween. The reading this week was the third chapter of Untangling The Web. This chapter talks about presentation tools (I see what you did there) other than keynote and power point. One specific tool it talked about was Prezi. There are a couple things about it that I didn't know. One, if you are an educator you get a free premium membership to Prezi. This is really neat that they do this. It probably helps create a lot of brand awareness and certainly portrays them in a

The Flyers beat the Capitals last night 8-2. So, I am incredibly happy to say the least. Great showing from everyone. Other than that this week has been pretty uneventful. We're kind of in the calm of the storm right now before midterm season. This week in class we had our first app smackdown. I went first with StockTwits . It's essentially Twitter for the stock market. I thought it was a really neat idea. It's easy to get caught up in the technical side of stocks, so seeing people's feelings other than just reading a balance sheet is refreshing. Everyone else in class also had some really innovative apps that I can see many people getting use out of. Our assigned reading this week was chapter 6 of LOL...OMG.  This chapter discussed the, "content of your content." The chapter urges the reader to ask themselves questions about why they are posting content, and how others view your content. One example in the chapter is of Miley Cyrus posting goofy pictures

Another week, another blog. This week was a pretty awesome week. Hockey season has begun, and the Flyers are two and one so I'm feeling pretty good. This week we were assigned the first chapter  Untangling The Web by Steven Dembo and Adam Bellow. The first chapter talks about curating information sources to benefit educators. They talk about three curation sites; Symbaloo, Diigo, and eduClipper. The interface that Symbaloo uses, called Webmix,  creates a ten by six grid that can be customized to be linked to thousands of different websites. I can see how this can be incredibly useful to educators. It's an interesting way for students to get engaged in a topic being discussed in class. In class this week we had a guest speaker from the writing center talk to us about APA formatting. It actually ending up being really helpful as I had two papers due in APA format this week. We also saw a video of someone identifying people on the street via instagram posts, twitter posts, etc

Hello fellow bloggers! Hope you all had a fantastic week as usual. Personally I've been under the weather for the last few days, but I'm not going to let that stop me from writing my blog. This week we read chapters 3 and 5 of "LOL...OMG". There are two points (one from each chapter) that I'd like to touch on. First, in chapter 3 it is noted that if you do not edit the privacy settings on your Facebook. Theoretically, over 296 million people have access to that information. I don't know how that makes you feel, but it makes me uneasy. What is not noted is that anyone with a little hacking knowledge can easily find out a lot more than just what your last status update on Facebook was. All of your posts, the times you posted them, the exact computer from which you posted them from, and even a live face cam from the web camera on your computer can all be found out with little trouble. Granted, to do this you need to commit well over 10 felonies, but the fact re