Selecting My Blog Tool

While searching for different blogging tools, I was surprised how often Tumblr showed up in the list of most used blogs. It never occured to me that this was a blogging tool, but because it very popular with students I thought I would look into it. For a teen, I suppose this is a good tool, but mostly it appeared to be mostly a social networking site. I decided to check out Edublogs as it is so popular with educators, but the free version didn't offer very much. I'm a huge fan of video embedding and media embedding, but it was not offered with the free version. Ultimately, my decision to use Blogger was made for one reason...I'm a huge Google user. I'm logged in to Google account all day and use Google Docs in my classroom...it just made sense!

Netbooks in the classroom

Education "futurist" David Thornburg convincingly argues that mobile devices, especially tablets (e.g., iPad), will change education. As students at HHS you have been given the opportunity to use netbooks in the classroom, do you feel they have had an impact in your education in any way, either positive or negative?