Reflections on “Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally”

The article is timely, relevant, and informative:
* Review of Bloom’s taxonomy. Every time we look through this list it stimulates us to re-consider how we could do more or better.
* Defining computer tech terms we have only heard of
* Discusses computer tech terms we have used and shows us how those skills are taking our students to higher orders of thinking. (This gives a kind of pat on the back for some of the projects we are already having our students do, but also giving some insight on why some students have more trouble with these higher order projects.) This helps us evaluate the other tech assessments we are now using and modify those lessons to bring them, also, to a higher level. I could have had students evaluate the scientific value of a recent Google.doc project I had students do, rather than just get information for analysis. In the evaluations I’ve had students doing to date, I have not had them evaluate the kinds of technology used in the lesson.
* Introducing how new tech terms are applied, therefore, giving us ideas of future project

I’m not sure what a “popout” (term I got from Kim’s blog posts) is, but I think it might apply to these paragraphs. This article helped me see that the blogs I have been studying this week have largely been un-organized. I, too, am not good about helping the reader know from the title what is going on in the blog, so they know whether they want to read further or not. I will attempt to be more clear in my future blog titles to inform the audience. I also noted that my bookmarks (and Reader) organization is inefficient. I will attempt to make folders and organize the wikis in my Reader and the favorites in my Bookmarks into folders to save me time in the future.

I also want to learn more about mashing, which I assume will come with this course. I look forward to learning how to integrate links and animations into my projects. Finally, it would be a wonderful way to celebrate someone’s life by giving them a digital tribute using these technologies.

Going against the grain of modern technologies, this paper is one I would like to have under the glass at my station desk.

Any thoughts?