Week 7

It is impressive that just 17 years ago - when I had my first son Christopher - computers were a relatively new thing, and the digital age was just beginning. Toy Story, the first completely CGI (computer-generated imagery) film, was considered (and still is) a landmark in film-making. And now, 17 years later, we have all these different tools like Wiki's and Voice Thread. The latter in particular strikes me the most, since it seems like a combination of several things we use today: Google Plus, Skype, Facetime, and Facebook, to name a few. In a way, these are preventing the need to meet each other in person; heck, all 30 students of a class could join a Voice Thread "session" so to speak, with a teacher as a host. By shrinking the gap, and proving it is just as easy as clicking with a mouse to get to educational tools, we are making it more convenient to teach.