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Well I truly screwed up in a learning experience kind of way. I just got rid of all my links instead of adding one which is what I was trying to do. I meant to add this http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/mindnodepro.html
among numerous other links and when I try attempted to change the name of the site --
POOF! so here's the link and a sincere hope that I can re-add my links heading back to my blog. And that's the only difference today between a blog and a sob.....

I was on-line viewing some sites

recommended in the texts, thinking I'm writing so often in front of a computer these days, staring at the monitor and typing more recently than the sum of all my typing in my previous school experience; let me see if any k-12 language arts sites have any thing to offer me in maintaining coherence at least. So I turn to a site recommended in my Integrating Technology text and it reads the following:
9. Reading and Language Arts Resources on the Internet

Reading and Language Arts Resources on the Internet offers an annotated directory of reading and language arts sites found on the World Wide Web. This site contains many valuable resources on topics ranging from what to read to and how to encourage reading to reading disorders.

What's wrong with this final sentence? And they're 1 going to give me advice on writing and 2 tell me that using the computer doesn't effect you in unexpected ways sometimes? After all this is an educational site and no-one bothered to correct that unintentional Gertrude Stein-ism.

All of this wundertech

is fascinating, vast, and if you let it be all consuming. I can spend hours on the sites we've been introduced to. From tapped-in interactive and synchronous to Discovery Unitedstreaming. And it's definitely demonstrated it's educational value. But for an analog brain that enjoys the contrast of the electronic, this exponential educational digitalia is a lot to upload and it's getting crowded in here. Each day I get a little more accustomed to addressing things digitally, but until I get more comfortable with it, I'll suddenly get the anxiety level of gondolier steering a cruise-ship.

I viewed

some of the video cases in the Grabe text today, to put some of these issues we're covering in a classroom context, since I don't have a classroom experience to reference when I consider the material. One, "Process Writing" employed a sort of artificial method that seemed to overly dissect the young student's writing. On the other hand, it provided them concerted attention in their writing exercises and brought what the teacher's (their audience) found impressive to the attention of the writer. I found something really encouraging about the "Peer Editing Process" video case (pg. 88), because it piggy-backed constructive criticisms by fellow students on what they thought a particular student writer did successfully. The teacher very insightfully explained that as a student's self-expression is valued and enabled, they develop the confidence that their expression will have a place in the world. For me, that humanizes the objectives of using technology educationally. I need that reassurance as I spend more and more time in front of my computer.