Sci Fi nursery rhyme - cute and thought provoking

The Day the Robots Woke Up
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Thing 23

Final Reflections

In my leisure time (what little of it there is) I like to design and make jewelry. Before learning this craft I had never heard of crimping pliers. They are used to “crimp” a small bead at the ends of your beading to ensure that your necklace or bracelet doesn’t come apart. There are other pliers that can be used but once I discovered the crimping pliers I would never choose any other tool for that job. The right tool for the job makes all the difference. Thanks to 23 Things I now have a large repertoire for teaching and learning using Web 2.0 tools. I am a happy camper. So today for example when I sat in a meeting where a document was being edited by a group and one person was attempting to capture all the various suggestions for edits and changes, I immediately thought WIKI!!!
My new tools will help me to ensure that various tasks are done well, easier to do, done more efficiently and more likely to accomplish the intended goal. There are some challenges however and I’d like to offer my list of pros and cons.
Pros

• I have an increased number of communication tools at my fingertips
• Time can be saved when multiple contacts are needed to edit a document (WIKI, Google doc)
• Tools allow for easy sharing of work
• Decreases or eliminates distance barriers, encourages global communications
• Data collection widget allows you to hear from those who visit your site
• Don’t have to know HTML, scripts are provided
• Increasing amounts of information are available

Cons

• I still prefer face to face contacts for some tasks. I like to see facial expressions, gestures etc in attempting to fully understand someone’s point
• May miss cues that you can observe when working in person
• Some tools rely on user preferences i.e. tags are not “standardized” and don’t mean the same thing to everyone.
• Information overload!! Bloglines brings in way too much to read at one time if you subscribe to prolific bloggers
• Can’t always control or know who’s responding
• Limited to page, object formats if you don’t know scripts or HTML
• Information overload. 2 cautions: increased information does not guarantee increased wisdom and all information presented does not necessarily meet “standards”. How do you know information can be trusted?
• Lots of advertising on some sites
• Equal access is not available for all stakeholders
• Sometimes difficult to control who sees or has access

That’s my 2 cents worth. Now I will make some choices of which tools to get good at and explore them more. Hey 23 Things, what’s next? As always, thanks for listening. Leslie

Thing 19 Thing 20

Exploring podcasting and video casting (like the video casting better) was not as interesting as some of the other explorations. I did not subscribe to anything. When I checked my Bloglines for today, I found the greatest segment on the Concord school in Australia. They are a great example of a school where students and staff use several of the 2.0 tools we have explored. Photo sharing, blogging, social networking, and students are now creating and generating their own tools. By the way, it’s a school for students with disabilities. I attempted to embed it into this post but it kept crashing IE. Instead, I added it as a gadget. I think I like it better there anyway that way its always up and visible whenever you visit my blog. It is certainly worth checking out. Let me know what you think. As always, thanks for listening. Leslie

Thing 17 Part 2

Here is my first Knowtes deck - had some trouble with embedding the code and on the website.

Thing 18 General Colin Powell Text

I like SlideShare. Check out this SlideShare Presentation from Colin Powell on Leadership Lessons. Tough talk...I like it.

General Colin Powell Text

View more presentations from Joan Boyer.

Thing 12

Time to blog!



Some blogs are so busy I have a hard time locating the main content. (I find the same to be true on lots of web pages). This stuff is truly addictive but how much is too much? Perhaps today's multi-taskers aren't as bothered by all that stuff - maybe it's just me. What are your thoughts? As always, thanks for listening.