Well it's a new week and time for new updates on the blogs I'm following...

"Blogging about the Web 2.0 Connected Classroom" (that name is just way too long) has a post from Jan 28 named "So...You Wanna Be A Good Digital Citizen" http://blog.web20classroom.org/2013/01/soyou-wanna-be-good-digital-citizen.html  and once again, the post didn't teach me something new technologically but did speak about the importance of educating students about their digital footprint. I heartily agreed with this post and think that if we, as educators, want to incorporate technology in our techniques and to speakto our students with and via technology then we also need to make sure that they know of the potentai dangers ofusing these amazing tools. I'm sure that many of our tech-savvy students are less aware of the trails they leave in the digital world and perhaps it is important that we, as the people that are there to help them learn and progress, while understanding that this can be done through technology as this is the language of our students today, need to teach our students the importance of using technolgoy responsibly...

"Learning with "e"s" had a blog post from March 9th named "Who's afraid of the big bad MOOC" that deals with the interesting subject of Massive Open Online Courses. Unfortunately the free versions quickly made way for the money-making versions. The post discusses how likely it is that these courses pose a real threat for institutions such as universities. The bottom line is that it is highly unlikely that such courses will completely take over traditional ways of learning but in all likelihood they will strongly affect what and how material is taught. MOOC will force professors to take a look at their pedagogical practices if they have to compete with online courses...interesting point about how academic titles are less what interests the world as opposed to competency...a fascinating look at how technology is changing the face of everything...

On March 12th the Innovative Educator wrote a post entitled "Say goodbye to bake sales forever" which basically laid down  how students in a certain school raised money for charity using a fundraising page, raising money with very little effort as opposed to traditional ways of raising money such as bake sales whereby a lot of time is invested in order to make not so much money. A great example of how kids can use technological tools creatively...I did always like a good bake sale though so not sure how I feel about this

Fab- have a wonderful week y'all!