Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Week 8-what happened

OK-finding the room we met in last week was a challenge. When I got to the classroom I vaguely remembered seeing something about meeting in the library. So I wandered over. On the way I passed three people from the other class and kept turning around before I realized they were in the other class. Finally I got to the library and checked my email and d2l...I couldn't find anything. Then Chris miraculously passed by and said he'd checked everywhere else...so off we went. If Inna hadn't been holding the door for princess Chris I may have decided to go home and try again later. After all, this must have been a bad dream.

Since I have developed a reputation as being against technology, I'll play that role. The problems we encountered in the illuminate presentation make me wonder if computers are the way to go for this. The nature of an ITV classroom seems more useful, in that everyone can be heard and seen (depending on the camera being used). I would imagine that computers paired with ITV would be a wonderful combination. The immediacy of the television, with the internet capabilities of the computer would make everything very quick. I know that not all schools have ITV capabilities, however most do. On the other hand, pod casts, and online teaching have caused the server at my old stomping grounds to freeze up.

Back in the room I was happy to learn how to access my mavdisk....I've never used it and was surprised to see that somehow I have used it, unintentionally.

When I was walking today I thought about our conversation about buying domain names. I'm curious, MSU owns the MSU.edu name, however, what about the pages that belong to the different departments? Are they just part of the big name or do they have to buy their names too?

2 comments:

Solen D. Feyissa said...

Thea,
I am writing in response to your last question on this entry.
The domain name is more like a book and the departments pages are its pages. So when you go to the department pages, what you are doing is turning its pages. This is the best explanation I have, so far. Let me know if it's not clear.

Inna said...

Glad I could help, holding the door;)))