Saturday, May 15, 2010

Online Communication

This module was both frustrating and rewarding for me. I get frustrated with computers. When the computer or internet connection is slow, I feel completely helpless--computers are both our slaves and our masters, and I rather dislike being so reliant on a machine, but it is the way of the world. I was very frustrated using Teachertube. Every time I logged on, the site was too busy to respond, causing me to logon repeatedly. This is just a minor inconvenience, but what bothered me most was the fact that I posted a video, and then there was no message about it being posted, just a blank screen. I posted it four times with the same result. Finally, by scrolling through my account, there was a message saying that my video was up for review by the moderator. This would have been nice to see after I posted the video each of the four times. Oh, well, it's posted now...
On a different note, I LOVE Voicethread. What in an ingenious idea! I have big plans to use this program for science next year--it's so user friendly, I think it will lend itself nicely to 6th grade science classes.

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