Skype seems to be the tool of choice for creating more global connections for educators. It’s excellent for quickly contacting experts in other school districts, for joining in workshops as a guest speaker, for coordinating plans between presenters who live in different cities, and for coordinating global education projects, etc. But some school districts have [...]
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Managing information
November 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Tools
Lee Wilson has an interesting post on managing information overload that has spurred my thinking of late. The premise is that we no longer really have to “save” and “store” information, magazines, etc., because we can look things up easily when we need them if we have good information search strategies. As I’ve been weeding [...]
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More resources for promoting responsible use of networking
October 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · EthicsChallenge, Tools
In keeping with the conversations (Karl Fisch, Wes Fryer, Doug Johnson, myself, and others) going on around the blogosphere about filtering, access, and social networking in schools, I wanted to share this excellent toolkit from YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) entitled “Teens and Social Networking in School and Public Libraries.” The toolkit has ideas appropriate for librarians [...]
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What can we do going forward?
October 4th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Leadership, Tools, Web 2.0
I’ve been following a number of posts the last couple of weeks about internet filtering and the erratic application of it in schools, and the frustrations of teachers just wanting to share fascinating new ways of learning with their students. Karl Fisch did an excellent job of pulling some of those threads together in [...]
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Twittering your way down the information highway
September 29th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Tools, Web 2.0
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, [...]
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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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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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Will this be THE device?
September 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Research, Tools
When I first saw the iPhone, I was so excited, because I started thinking that this will be the device(or one close to it) that will be the portable device for our students for classroom use. Today’s release of some new Apple products, including the iPod Touch (basically an iPhone without the phone part, or [...]
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Getting into the game
September 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Tools, Web 2.0
Microsoft announced their release next week of a new suite of software services, meant to compete with web software like Google Docs, etc. offer. If I am understanding it correctly, some tools will be free(like a photo sharing tool which sounds similar to Picasa from Google), and some will be ones that Microsoft charges for. [...]
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31 day comment challenge reflections
May 18th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Learning, Tools, Web 2.0
How are our online conversations part of our own learning? I’ve been loosely participating in the 31 Day Comment Challenge, (which is an effort to focus on improving blog comments through various activities.) It’s been a little bit of a learning curve for me to figure out how to use coComment, which is the tool we [...]
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