Yesterday, I was impressed by my finding of the Carnegie Foundations’s Teaching and Learning Commonswebsite. I quickly registered and began to explore the many scholars sites within the site on educational technology. I’m impressed, but it certainly could use further development. The content layout system seems tedious, and when I tried to create my own pages to begin to stitch together it opened way too many windows.
In the realm of education websites directed to students, I located Simply Spark’s list which impressed me all around. Some of the sites I was formally familiar with from personal experience, but many of these educational resources were new to me. Most impressively, I think EduBlogs might be a better alternative to our currently used system with Blogger. I spend a lot of time explaining to students that they do not need to create an entirely new blog each time they post a blog assignment. Moments ago, I worked with a student who had locked herself out of her blog account because she couldn’t remember which email address she’d used to set the account up. Sound familiar?
It’s a common problem these days when you have accounts all over on multiple sites and you can’t locate which email address you used to sign up for that account. The ability to remember all your logins seems like a simple skill but so many accounts so little brain space… Blackberry has a password keeper program in it, but not everyone has a blackberry or iphone. Though, said student’s Blackberry would not turn on, and such information will certainly be lost in the internal memory of the phone thus deeming the feature useless. There must be an easier way to keep track of your digital life.
