Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
I had the privilege of hearing Alan November speak to a group of about 150 educators on May 7, 2008. He had some very provocative things to say, as usual. Here I'll give you some of the most salient points...the things that struck me most...the things that I most feel ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
I have blogged earlier about some ideas about how to use wikis in your classroom.
Since I gave a session at the recent CVCUE conference about wikis, and directed those in attendance to check out my blog, I thought I'd share the following (as well as a reminder about that previous ...
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
I blogged a while ago about an exciting opportunity that presented itself for me to use blogging and wikis with one of my students that was going to be gone to India for a few weeks.
The dream was dependent on my student having internet access when she was in ...
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Wow! Wow! Wow!
Listen to Steve Jobs's Keynote at the Macworld Expo 2007.
He introduces the iPhone, what he calls a "widescreen iPod, revolutionary phone, and a breakthrough internet device". He frames the introduction of the product by putting it in the context of the the revolutionary ...
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Steve Dembo recently blogged about "Blogging for your own future reference." It struck me as such a relevant point that I left the following comment:
Great point!
I was just about to reflect on this general point myself. I see my own blog as sort of a resource for those teachers that ...
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
I have heard some complaining that Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2006 was not a more conventional individual person this year.
However, as I read the issue, and reflected on who/what was the real newsmaker(s) this year, I have to agree that Time probably got it right. They basically ...
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
The following is a comment I left at:
http://durffsblog.blogspot.com/
She was asking her blog audience for ideas of how to use wikis with her 7th-12th graders. I chimed in with some ideas for her. This was a great little experience, and one that really illustrates the power of the blogosphere.
1. We can ...
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
In teaching, sometimes we are asked to put together a "Travel Study" plan for students who are going to be gone for anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks.
This is what happened to me recently. However, this one was significantly different! It was so exciting, I had to ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
There has been an enormous amount of buzz in the ed-tech blogosphere lately about DOPA, Delete Online Predators Act.
Here is the wikipedia article about it. Be sure to glance at the Arguments in Opposition.
This is also a good summary from David Warlick.
In short, this is a bill that would go ...
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Marc Prensky writes about Digital Immigrants, Digital Natives.
This idea has sparked many, many conversations about reaching our students. In our FPU class, it has come up, as we have been reading Richardson's book.
Here is a comment I left on one blog from a classmember about this topic. She had asked, ...
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