How will you use Flickr?

How do you think you will use your Flickr account? Sharing photos with family and friends? Or organizing your photos for scrapbooking? Any other ideas?

Can learn but can't remember

The problem with technology and the aging mind is that I can't retain what I have learned. I once asked my daughter how to do something on the computer. She said,"Mom, you taught me how to do it!" I told her, "Yes, I showed you so that when I needed to do it again, I would have somebody to tell me how."

That was never more apparent than the other night after I got home from class. I was fooling around on the computer and discovered that one of the reasons I was so frustrated in class was that I was trying to create a blog using info I used to create a previous blog. A blog I don't remember making! After trying to reconstruct what happened, I vaguely remembered playing with the google features at the time my daughter introduced me to g,mail. That was 2007! And there sits my abandoned blog with one measly entry.

Discussion Starter Week 2: Connected or Disconnected?

The division between what can be produced by students who have ready access to technology and those who do not continues to grow. Some students have up-to-date computers, cutting edge software, internet access, flash drives, DVD burners, cell-phones, multifunction printers and digital cameras. Others have few, if any, of these tools. Yet, when an assignment is due, it is assessed with a single rubric. How can students without technology compete? What can be done about this disparity?

First Post!

I now know how my mother felt trying to learn mailstation. I am not a digital native--FOR SURE!