Not So Distant Future

Interesting article on Cnn.com today about the software on the $100 laptop. The interesting thing about it to me is they have combined features from different software to enable students to collaborate and chat and create, rather than use the standards Window software.   Says Nicholas Negroponte, who spearheaded the project, “One of the saddest but [...]

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I know some of you have tried pbwiki.com or other wiki sites like Wikispaces, to start creating a wiki for yourself or for students to use. This article in Sunday’s American Statesman, (via the Boston Globe), shows wikis going more “mainstream” as technology tools and has examples of some new ones being developed. If you [...]

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This new site allows you to make greetings spelled out of buildings from Google Earth. Click here to see mine:  http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?zdCW33*J+kGGRhJ  Click to zoom in, and if you slide your mouse over the map, it shows where the greeting is from) Or make your own at www.geogreeting.com. Happy holidays! (and thanks to http://ideasandthoughts.org/) where I [...]

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Thanks for the great workshop Joel!   We had several questions about the personalized Google Home page that we talked about a few weeks ago, so I wanted to post some specific instructions. Go to Google.com.   In the top right corner, you’ll notice a link to Sign in. If you don’t have a Google account, look [...]

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This is my first attempt at a podcast–It’s a book review of Whole New Mind, which I really enjoyed.  Click to listen to the review!    wholenewmind.mp3 It’s a little strange listening to your own voice, but I was trying to give you an idea of what we could have students do in terms of creating book talks [...]

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If you have tried something as a result of our last Project Technology workshop or from something you’ve read in tips or blogs here at WHS, please share one thing  you tried this year with all of us!  That way we can all learn from each other… To tell about your experience, click on the red [...]

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Welcome to my new blog!  I’m moving my Websites in Education blog here, in order to have a better forum for sharing thoughts and links with and for our teachers and librarians. I’m fascinated by how all the new “web 2.0″ tools–tools that allow sharing knowledge with a community–will affect schools and libraries, specifically. We have glimmers of the not so [...]

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Welcome to Edublogs.org. Please feel free to check out some of the latest updated edublogs.org blogs, swing by the edublogs.org forums (a great place to ask if you have any questions or requests!) or just email all your colleagues telling them how wonderful edublogs.org is and that they must get an account  

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