We had a six-month check-in on How The Technology Was Working and to have a check-in on the data-mining creepiness that is the Googleverse.

Google Docs was acting buggy on some older computers [including mine] and from a class-accessibility standpoint, that was problematic: it’s important that participants feel they can “afford to participate” and that barriers be addressed and acknowledged.

Someone suggested that people who had trouble with google docs just “install google chrome” I took that as an opportunity to let folks know that g-chrome tracks your web movements more efficiently than any browser before and recommended Firefox with TACO add-ons. An example of a slightly didactic but gentle way to say this is: