Mr. Benesh’s Online Community

I recently read this blog post (http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2007/01/24/greatest-challenge/) and commented on it, too. My comment was from January 31st, and it will be near the bottom, if you choose to read it. Here was the question: “What is your greatest challenge in teaching appropriate, ethical use of web-based media to your students?”
Note: What an interesting [...]

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I recently read this (old) article. I had saved it in my Bloglines until I wanted to read it. It is now a few months later, but I finally felt like I would read it. And I am sure glad I did. The article (http://techdirt.com/articles/20061210/230620.shtml) was not much in itself. A few paragraphs at best, [...]

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Today, I read this article (http://techdirt.com/articles/20070125/002737.shtml) talking about how “short attention spans, and quick hits rule the day”. And some people blame the Internet. In brief summary, the Internet has made people so familiar with funny thirty-second video clips, flashy webpage intros, and getting anything whenever you want it (immediate gratification), that the long term [...]

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This article (http://uregina.ca/~benesh2d/net.doc) was in today’s paper. The title caught my eye, for sure, and I thought that this would be a great article with which to start my professional blogging part of my career.
In summary, the article stated that, “many children are still oblivious to the public nature of the Internet and the dangers [...]

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This is my first post for the ECMP 455 class with Alec Couros as my mentor/professor. This self-directed course will end up gaining me a wealth of experience with blogging, and the entire blogging community, creating/maintaining an electronic portfolio, and creating a course online with Moodle, my chosen creation tool. More to come.

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