There seems to be an excessive amount of free services available. I would like to find services that having staying power so that I can use them year after year. With the very nature of digital technology, a natural selection takes place where some sites and technologies are run out of common use. When I look to instigate a technology plan for my students, I want something that is free, easy, and long living.
If I were to look into the future for the next five years, I would say it is a safe assumption that Google will remain an industry leader. For this reason, I will be having my students sign up for a g-mail account. With this g-mail account they may share documents on Google Documents. They will have an e-mail account that will be easy for me to remember [first name_last name_AIS2009 @ gmail.com] and they will have an easy to set up Blog through blogspot. Because it is so closely related to Google, a g-mail account is all that is needed to sign up. With Google, students may also subscribe to RSS feeds and share calendars. While I don’t want to put all my eggs in one basket, I predict that Google is a good basket to place them in.
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