I heart iGoogle.

If you don't know about iGoogle, please stop everything you are doing and prepare for your life to be changed. If you have a gmail account, you can use it to log into iGoogle.

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When you're logged in, you can personalize your iGoogle page with all sorts of widgets and modules and themes. My favorite parts are being able to see my gmail inbox and my Google Reader.

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Google reader is a great way to subscribe to blogs. It will compile new postings (and show you when the blogs you read have new posts), and you can go directly to the blogs from the Reader. This is how I read all the cyberped blogs that you guys write.

Poor Man's Interactive White Board with Wii Remote

Our discussion about the smart white board in the AIC Education Center reminded me of this video. You can download the software he refers to here.

Three Days later....

...and I'm still feeling good vibes about our second class. Hope you all are too. I really enjoyed the different takes so many of you had of the Photobet project, and the high quality of the work. Additionally, what a great conversation on the Walker Art Center's blogs and the organization as a whole. It's important to analyze the work of organizations and museums, whether we admire or revile them, and giving a good critical once over to the place is always useful. We should have recorded the conversation and sent it over to the the folks at the Walker.  They could have gotten something useful out of it. :)

I'll try to share some other fun items on here for people to check out. A couple weeks ago I was at the Redmoon Theater Fall Spectacle. If you don't know about Redmoon, check them out at their website, www.redmoon.org. They are an awesome group that does some really funky and creative stuff, and this show lived up to their reputation. Enjoy!

An Experiment

Cyberped Lab is an experiment as a class. Developed to fill a gap for future museum educators, the class aims to provide a laboratory space, a safe place to try out ideas, sharpen skills, and develop our tools as art educators. Our laboratory is the real world where you put into play the readings and theory that you have begun as first year graduate students. The more of your experience you share via blogs, presentations, and projects, the more this class will contribute to your ultimate practice as an art educator. Looking forward to a collaborative and exciting semester.