Not So Distant Future

Our Project Tech workshop yesterday was on blogs and wikis.  What’s the difference between blogs and wikis?   Simply put, blogs are more about connecting with people, while wikis are more about collecting information. You can use a blog to share and discuss information with others.  One of the main things I’m liking about blogs is [...]

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Welcome to our edublogs workshop this morning! http://www.edublogs.org

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I’ve been sharing a lot of different tools with you here.   Why am I excited about them? I was thinking about that this morning when I was reading about a presentation Will Richardson(who is championing what he calls the “Read/Write”web) did at a conference. He believes that what is important about all of these tools [...]

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    Flickr is basically a photography site with an added piece–community. Users can share their photos, join groups of those who have similar interests, or comment on photos.   Each photographer “tags” their photos with relevant keywords. That means you can easily search a keyword like China and find photographs relating to it.   For educational use, Flickr allows [...]

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Ok, this concept blows my mind.     Slide Share is a site where people can upload their powerpoint presentations.  BUT  it is also a “social networking” site because other people can view and comment on the powerpoints that are posted. Talk about changing an experience for your class from a student   having audience of 25 [...]

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In our Project Technology workshop yesterday, we talked about the trend in search sites that are using “visual” methods for searching.    Ian Jukes talked about how students read screens differently and I think we’ll start seeing that trend in search engine websites.  Ok, so maybe this is geeky but after all, I am a …… [...]

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