CEP 812 Participation Tasks 1st Half

For Session 1 we were asked to create a mini biography through a video cast. Here is a link to my blog posting with my video cast. After posting on my blog I watched several other students introductions and commented through the discussion forums in Angel.

CEP 812 Video Introduction Blog Post

For Session  2 I created on online survey through Google Docs and shared the survey with some colleagues, students, and classmates. The survey can be found here and the results here. Looking at the results, I only had 5 people actually respond to the survey. The people that received the survey are fellow teachers, friends, and some students (although I don't think any students responded, maybe because it felt like homework in the summer??)  Looking at the responses, it was interestesting to see the following:
*Everyone uses a computer at home or at school
*Everyone finds it easier to complete homework or work on a computer because they have a computer accessible at school or at home
*Everyone uses computers on a daily basis
*The main tasks that people carry out using computers is e-mailing and updating social network sites. 
*People use laptop/cell phones to carry out technology tasks the most.
The results may seem a little biased because of the audience who completed the survey. It would be interesting to give this survey out to students at the beginning of the school year to see how the results compare.I have also shared this in the discussion forum for Session 2 in Angel. 

For the web-conferencing lab, our group first tried Vyew and then switched to Skype, you can find the blog post reflection here.

Finally, for session 2, we contributed a tip to the MACUL forum. Here is my posting to MACUL...

Click here to view MACUL discussion forum posting...