Posted in Tools To Use, Web 2.0 on Mar 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Official Google Reader Blog: Reader and ARIA: A new way to read
This via my Google Reader today: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA). Basically it’s a screen reader for Google Reader, which allows vision-impaired folks to have their RSS reading spoken to them aloud via the computer. I haven’t tried it yet, but will do so [...]
Posted in Tools To Use, Web 2.0 on Mar 26th, 2008 No Comments »
The Web’s best free stuff
This came via my del.icio.us account yesterday. Some good stuff is here–today I tried the online word processor known as “Buzzword.” Simple and user friendly. Good collaboration tool! Enjoy . . . .
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Teenagers and the Internet | Salon Life
Teenagers today read and write for fun; its part of their social lives. We need to start celebrating this unprecedented surge, incorporating it as an educational tool instead of meeting it with punishing pop quizzes and suspicion.
Good read.
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Posted in Education, Web 2.0 on Mar 10th, 2008 2 Comments »
The Tech Savvy Educator » Blog Archive » Four Simple Truths - It’s Not About The Technology
This is a great post about (again) Web 2.0 issues. I’m not sure I emphasized this enough in my presentation at the Library Media Specialists conference last week. It isn’t about the technology, but about what our students are [...]
Posted in Education, Web 2.0 on Mar 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Steve Hargadon: Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education
I believe that the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and politically have a greater impact than the advent of the printing press. I believe that we cannot even begin to imagine the changes that are going to take [...]
Posted in Blogging, Conferences on Mar 7th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve recently begun listening to some educational video posts on a site called, Ustream.tv
Today while working on a website for one of our art teachers, I listened to Will Richardson give a presentation on using Web 2.0 tools in education. He talked about what it means to teach our students for what lies ahead in [...]
Posted in Conferences, Education on Mar 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
Today’s keynote is being done by John Almarode on “Brain-Based Learning.” I’ve never live-blogged before, so here goes!
Enrichment–he is talking about how the brain changes with enrichment. Brain cells change, etc. etc.
–Has to be a contrasting purposeful environment. A lot of what we do in classrooms are “maintaining” rather than a contrasting positive purposeful environment. [...]
Posted in Lesson Ideas, Tools To Use on Mar 4th, 2008 No Comments »
G9Chemistry » Biology Voicethreads
The above link takes you to some great examples of student created VoiceThread shows. These are well done, relevant and the students demonstrate their understanding of the concepts that they are trying to convey. Nice!
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Posted in Blogging, Tools To Use on Mar 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Technology Times Blog - Voice Threads
This is a great podcast from John Hendron, over at Goochland County Public Schools. There’s a lot of potential in this tool and John does a great job of explaining it. I can’t wait to introduce this to a few teachers that I know will enjoy working with their students [...]
