Week Two - Off and Running

The beginning of this week was filled with registering registering and registering! I checked and double checked to make sure I was registered at every site needed and joined the appropriate groups here and there. It was a tad bit overwhelming at first, but I think I'm good to go now and I'm off and running!

Last Sunday I connected with my partner, Karen, for the Emerging Technologies project. She seems very "with-it" and I think we'll make a good team. We decided to do Google Goggles as our new technology and the Tablet PC as our new device. We each went our own ways and did research throughout the week on the two topics, examples, pros and cons, links to resources, and ways to use it in the world of education, etc. We both had difficulty finding a whole lot of information about Google Goggles, but found just enough I suppose. This may be because it's still such a new, emerging technology. When researching Tablet PCs I was pretty shocked to see how expensive they are! Maybe they will be like all new technology items, and eventually come down in price over time.

Karen and I emailed each other all the data we collected throughout the week on Google Goggles and Tablet PCs. Then this Sunday we called each other again to conference about what we had each found. We agreed on who would be responsible for which portions of the wiki, and that we would continue to look and add as needed any more pertinent information we found throughout the week.

One new thing I learned this past week was how to use Shout and Share, a microblogging website, similar to Twitter (from what I understand). I have a family blog, and follow Facebook, but I haven't yet conquered the world of Twitter, so this is fairly new, but also somewhat familiar. So far, I think I like it :)

Greetings!

Hello everyone! My name is Lisa and I am a third year media specialist. I was a classroom teacher for eight years prior to finding my calling as a media specialist. This is my seventh online class at UCF and I plan on graduating with my master's degree in educational media in December 2010. I first began the Educational Media program in the fall of 2008. I am taking this class to make myself a better, more knowledgeable media specialist. I'm fairly new to the media world, but I've already fallen in love with the job! I feel like a child who desperately longs to soak up new information so I can better myself at something that I truely love to do. One thing I hope to accomplish in this course is to build for myself a strong foundation of tech savy confidence! I would like to be more comfortable with many of the technology items that I see we'll be exploring over the coming weeks. I look forward to working and learning together!