In addition my PLN will consist of following Richard Byrne on Twitter and establishing and sharing his tweets with others in my school.

Class Reflection

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Wow.....
All I can say is I can not believe how much knowledge I have learned since our initial class. After the first class I was really excited and began working on documents and exploring how to incorporate various thoughts into the project.

July 1, 2012 CESU went live with gmail. Since then I have learned how to establish a site and incorporate a spreadsheet, forms and embed all within a site complete with pages. Prior to this class I had never created a web site before.

My exposure has been vast due to your direction and the patience you demonstrated with my hundreds of questions is exemplary. You focused amazingly well given the vast differences of abilities among the students in this class.

I want to follow all of you on Twitter or another site so I can continue to benefit from your expertise.

Thanks a million and I hope you offer this class for others again next summer. I hope I can share with others a little of what you have shared with me.

Questioning, collaboration and discussion.......

The origins of the word "gadget" trace back to the 19th century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there is anecdotal evidence for the use of "gadget" as a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember since the 1850s; with Robert Brown's 1886 book Spunyarn and Spindrift, A sailor boy’s log of a voyage out and home in a China tea-clippercontaining the earliest known usage in print.^[2] The etymology of the word is disputed. A widely circulated story holds that the word gadget was "invented" when Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, the company behind the repoussé construction of the Statue of Liberty (1886), made a small-scale version of the monument and named it after their firm; however this contradicts the evidence that the word was already used before in nautical circles, and the fact that it did not become popular, at least in the USA, until after World War I.^[2] Other sources cite a derivation from the French gâchettewhich has been applied to various pieces of a firing mechanism, or the French gagée, a small tool or accessory.^[2]

^{According to Wikipedia} 

What definition of gadgets engages inquiry with 21st century learning? View the Google video below.

How do gadgets support questioning, collaboration and discussion of any content? What gadgets are suitable for the current audience?