R/D2

-Well I first was introduced to the blogger last semester when i got a week and a half into 5420 and had to withdraw due to financial aid problems. So After the initial setup i thought it was ok, but now that i'm having to figure out more and more it seems a little difficult, especially after seeing some of my classmates blogs that look so much more interesting or sophisticated than mine....they look like my 'myspace or facebook pages. I just can't seem to navigate around this blogger as easy as i did facebook or myspace....i'm still trying though...the others' pages have inspired me to keep improving mine. Oh and this RSS things has got me boggled...i mean if i had hours on end to sit down and study the websites and information on the rss i probably wouldnt be so frustrated...but i work 9-5 at the y all day with kids and have two of my own and recently have came into 2 step sons and now have one baby on the way so all i want to do is sleep lol....I am looking forward to figuring it out though i love technology even though i find it frustrating.

-well i think the blog is lower on the cone than the rss because the rss you really only have to look and read or keep up with so your less active in this case so the student would be further removed from doing aspect of the cone. The blog you have to post things, write, interact with and are more actively involved. Although they both involved some learning by doing they probably would be in the bottom three components of the cone.

-I could definitely relate to this article and the concept of falling asleep at the keyboard, although i never have really fell asleep but lord knows i have felt like it and if it was comfortable i probably would have. Just like i stated before regarding my blog site, i thought that this was a pretty boring concept, until i seen some of my classmates blogs. I am truly surprised at what some of you guys have accomplished with your blogs they look great just the article talks about 'eye candy' and i would definitely want to introduce this idea to my students. It would be a great way to keep the whole class involved outside of the classroom. I believe this would allow for more classroom time that was not allotted for before because of the research and work that would have to be done during class time and resource availability, with the blogger the students could use each other as resources as each would link their rss feeds to their blogs and use these as informational tools and ways to keep in touch like a real live class room. These blogs could be used like virtual classroom almost and than allow teachers to use real time or class time for other hands ons activities that could not be worked on through the computer aspect of things. I think the students would catch on pretty fast and be interested in what they could do with the blogs just like a 'myspace page' that is not educational, but entertainment based, whereas the blog would keep their attention but benefit the teacher and classrooms all around. The kids would forget they were even doing work, hopefully, like computer imagination.