While I have not gotten into the discussions yet I would like to reflect on the activity 3-1 and the reading thus far while it is fresh in my mind.

I enjoyed the reading to a point. I did, however, find it dated – not surprising in this business – and a bit biased towards the pay or subscription services. For example, not once did I see any reference to any of Google’s free services including Doc’s, Show or their book scanning archive. In addition I did not see anything about Second Life in the section about virtual learning environments, and yet it is used by many major universities, including Harvard and Yale, and is used for other purposes like retail business and political campaigns. It has real potential, and ye no mention.

The activity using Inspiration was a pleasant surprise. I had used it as far back as 2002 and a few times since, but not after 2005 as I found it too clunky, and while it is still a bit awkward, I found it to function more intuitively than in the past. Nice. Oh, here is the .jpeg of my chart.

3-1 assessment objectives

As for the discussions it seems that most people have found different parts of the Bonk article to be relative to them. In fact I have noticed very little overlap. This is nice as it has allowed me to gather lots of different points of view concerning a wide array of themes from the article. I wonder, if we as a class had to pick a top point, or even top three, what would they be?

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