This course will involve asynchronous video communication using the CTL Video Blog Tool.  (It is fairly straightforward to use, but here is a Guide to using the CTL Video Blog.)  You login with your BYU netid and password.  Each of you has an individual blog that only you and I can access.   I will be recording weekly messages on the IP&T 286 group blog, including my video introduction.  The IP&T 286 group blog is a blog for the entire class.  There are also group blogs for each content area in this course (science, family and consumer science, and health).  We will be using the content-area group blogs occasionally throughout the semester.  Using video allows you to master an additional technology while helping you and I get to know each other a little better than we would if our conversation were limited entirely to the printed word.  

This week you need to record a brief video about yourself.  Please record your message on your personal blog.  When you record your video be sure to answer the following questions:

• What is your name?
• Why do you want to be a teacher?
• What is your experience/comfort level with technology?
• Why did you decide to take an online course?
• What is one interesting fact about yourself?