This list of questions was posted by Vicki Davis on her blog.  Here are my best attempts at honest answers:

Do you spend any time talking about proper methods of e-mail?                     

Not really because I teach music to grades kindergarten through 5th.  The kids that are really most ready to hear about this (my 4th and 5th graders) I only see once a week.

Do you have a facebook or myspace profile? 

Yep – Facebook rocks!  But so far I just use it with my friends and family.  My conundrum is how much do I let my Middle School and High School students see of my personal life on the net?  Don’t some parts of my life need to just be for me??

If someone wrote about you, is your name hyperlinkable?

Let’s see there’s www.mrsmuench.com my classroom music page’s hub.  There’s this blog and there’s my 5th grade class music blog at muench.21classes.com

Do you know the names of all of your students?

I do and I see all the students in 4 buildings!  Now, if you asked my students if I could always recall their name on the spot many of them would roll over laughing.  I’ve never been good at names and teaching has just made it worse. 

If your students have computers in the classroom, do your students make ongoing eye contact?

We have computers in my 1st-3rd room but that’s because I volunteered to teach music in the computer lab every day.  So the kids don’t actually sit at the computers during the whole class time.  I’m not sure how I would cope with students who weren’t making eye contact as it is one of the main ways I keep track of who is focused on the task at hand.  This is something I need to think about….

Are you unafraid of what would happen if youtube, myspace, and facebook were allowed in your classroom?

I’m not afraid of this as I know what wonderful resources these sites have been for me.  However, again, I teach elementary grades.  The bigger question for me would be what would happend if they allowed cartoonnetwork.com!  Every time I say “internet” during first quarter AT LEAST one kid asks if we can go there.  (smile)

Do your students collaboratively create documents?

YES!  We make podcasts, power points and drawings.  Do those count?  1st graders don’t really do ”documents” in 20 minutes…. 

Do you expect your students to complete their reading assignments?

Reading assignments???  This is music class – IF we need to read something we’ll do it together in class.

Do you assign papers and grade them after reading EVERY WORD?

Papers are given only if a student can’t attend a performance to make up the points that were missed.  And then yes I do read EVERY word.  But I would not assign a whole class to do a paper as an assignment.  Ewwww I don’t want to donate my time to reading copius amounts of papers!

Have you ever given assignment and allowed students to create content on the public world wide web?

Yes if podcasting or blogging counts.

Do you allow students to post content WITHOUT premoderation?

Nope my kids are too young for that responsibily yet.  But we are working on it.

If you allow students to post online, do you subscribe to 100% of their content in your RSS reader?

YES! 

Do you comment on your student blogs?

Yes but not on each and every post. 

Is more than 50% of your content relevant “to life?” (Ask your students)

Don’t know.

Do all of your students open their textbook for your class on a weekly basis?

Woooo HOOOOO!  no textbooks!

Do you give reading assignments that include web content?

Again no reading assignments…….. 

Have your students been taught methodologies for assessing the validity of web documents?

I’ve been modeling it as we work.  We discuss why some sites are valid and others might be questionable.

Do you give students projects where they must manage themselves, multitask, and deliver a comprehensive output that is relevant to your topic?

Yes I try to do this type of activity at least once a year for each grade level I teach.

Have you changed anything significant about ALL of the courses you are teaching THIS YEAR?

Not about ALL of them that might push me over the edge of sanity.  I try to change things up in 1/2 of my classes each year.  Then I do the other 1/2 the next year.

Do you care?

Most days I do care.  Some days I’m overwhelmed or beaten down and just can’t.  Hopefully my students reap the benifits of a teacher that cares about staying current on all fronts.