When you are searching for sites that are helpful to use with students, it’s such a slow process, looking through each site to see if the graphics, design, layout, etc., are appealing for younger students. During a workshop I was teaching today on Pageflakes (great visual tool for introducing RSS feeds–Thanks Will Richardson for sharing it), [...]
Entries from June 8, 2007
Workshop snapshots
June 5, 2007 · No Comments · Podcasts, Web 2.0
A snapshot from the two workshops I taught yesterday– We spent the morning talking about wikis. We discussed how the ability to collaboratively write, arrange the page, and edit gives students more of a voice. Another subject that came up was the idea of how the collaborative writing gives students an opportunity to practice their negotiating skills [...]
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Teaching “kismet”
June 3, 2007 · 3 Comments · Tools, Web 2.0
I love it when teaching “kismet” happens, when you accidentally find things that are useful right when you need them. I’m teaching a workshop tomorrow on using wikis in the classroom, and today just by happenstance as I was reading through several blogs, I ran across three items about wikis that I’ll be sharing tomorrow. Earlier today [...]
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Thinking we will need?
June 3, 2007 · 1 Comment · Change
Not surprisingly since it is the end of the school year, many of the blogs I read are re-examining the idea of change in education and how web 2.0 tools fit into that. Thinking Stick “Creating a Paradigm Shift” Ideas and Thoughts from an Ed Tech ”Paying at the Pump” Remote Access ”Looking Differently” Chalkdust [...]
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Podcast attempts
June 1, 2007 · No Comments · Web 2.0
I’m teaching a number of workshops next week in my district, and one is on finding or creating podcasts. So, I took the challenge and created a very short podcast about teaching and learning as my first published effort. technolibrary1trying.mp3 And here’s a link to the same file on my new account on Switchpod, which is [...]
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