I mentioned Twitter during some staff development sessions on Thursday, and found myself struggling to explain how powerful a tool it can be. Teach42 has an outstanding post on Twitter that illustrates it far better than I could, so I’m pointing to his post here. (although I’m adding to it) If you haven’t used Twitter before, [...]
Entries from September 29th, 2007
Twittering your way down the information highway
September 29th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Tools, Web 2.0
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The ability to improvise
September 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Change, Innovation
Warning–this is a somewhat esoteric post, but something that grabbed my interest and I wanted to share. This morning, to rev myself up for a day of workshops, I was listening to some podcasts on the way to work and ran across an Accidental Creative podcast interview with Stephen Nachmanovitch, author of Freeplay: Improvisation in Life and [...]
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Spread the word
September 25th, 2007 · No Comments · k12online07
The inimitable Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach of 21st Century Collaborative has tagged some of us to share what we find valuable about participating in the K12 Online Conference. Last year about this time, I stumbled over this conference, barely understanding what it meant to have an online conference, but wandered in and gave it a try. What [...]
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Power of the network–students sharing their experiences
September 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0
Last week, Kim Cofino, who teaches at the International School Bangkok, invited bloggers she knew to help one of her fourth grade teachers with a project for Peace Day. The teacher, Scott Lamont, asked the “world” for answers to his questions about peace to share with his students. Students (from elementary to high school level) and [...]
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Like schoolkids
September 23rd, 2007 · 5 Comments · Collaboration, Teacher Learner, Tools, Web 2.0
I feel like a giddy schoolgirl this morning–just having so much fun interacting with other educators around the world who are also giddy about what they are doing. While most of us in the U.S. were sleeping, Jeff Utecht of Thinking Stick in Shanghai was testing out a new site called WizIq (a new site that [...]
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The “internet librarian”
September 22nd, 2007 · 6 Comments · il2007, Web 2.0
I’m gearing up for a conference in late October, Internet Librarian and particularly Internet Schools West. It’s one of my favorite “librariany” conferences, and the first one I blogged from last year as a new blogger, which was such a cool experience (and challenging since the beautiful Asilomar lodge didn’t have internet access in the rooms!) [...]
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Google docs now adds “presentations”
September 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Tools, Web 2.0
Google is everywhere, and has just added a new, awaited feature to their Google docs services — Google presentations. Imagine Powerpoint “lite” but with the added element of collaboration, and you get the idea. Imagine how your workflow or that of students is improved if you can collaborate on your presentations ONLINE, simultaneously, instead [...]
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What’s on your bookshelf?
September 17th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Book recommendations
Ethan Bodnar (a blogging high school senior) has a clever request for people to share photos of what’s on their bookshelves. He’s created a flickr group for readers to post a photograph of some of their books as a way to illustrate something about themselves. What a great project for students as well! To help him get started, I’m tagging [...]
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YouTube goes to college
September 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Web 2.0
An intriguing class is being taught at Pitzer College this fall on YouTube. Alexandra Juhasz, a media studies professor is offering the course about YouTube and how it impacts art and culture, and the class is filmed and uploaded to YouTube, so anyone in the world can observe the direction of the course. Discussion will be presented via YouTube and [...]
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K12 Online more teasers
September 14th, 2007 · No Comments · k12online 2007, Web 2.0
More teasers are up at the K12 online conference site. A reminder if you aren’t familiar that K12 online is an ALL online conference taking place in October, starting with a keynote by David Warlick on October 8. As for the teaser videos, I’m excited about Dean Shareski’s presentation on design(since I’ve been designing a [...]
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