educators have been encouraged to change roles again and again as we become more familiar with the capabilities of the technology and its uses in instruction.

instructors have been presented with the challenge of moving from center stage to more of a support role--a facilitator

we no longer need to be the sole source of all information nor the one who presents every aspect of the course or who controls how information is presented and re-presented for evaluation

A set of guidelines used in this analysis offers a concrete way to provide structure.

1. Use a modular approach to topical coverage to force integration of topical ideas and concepts

short that will play in front of Toy Story 3

When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they discover each other's unique qualities--and come to realize that each of them offers a different window onto the same world--the friendship helps both to gain a new perspective.

Rather than project info onto a portion of the windshield, GM’s latest experiment uses the entire windshield as a display.

“Let’s say you’re driving in fog, we could use the vehicle’s infrared cameras to identify where the edge of the road is and the lasers could ‘paint’ the edge of the road onto the windshield so the driver knows where the edge of the road is,” Seder says

GM has no immediate plans to offer the technology in production models, but Seder says some of features could appear in vehicles at some point.

As a teacher, you can create a free teacher account through which you can create student accounts. Diigo's student accounts require no email address, can be kept private, and can also be grouped so that students can share resources they find with each other. 

While observing my students using Diigo, I noticed that they were actually reading the site and highlighting the information they wanted to keep.  This was different from previous years where they just copied blindly.  In addition, they could easily return to where they left off the previous class.