www.k12onlineconference.org Announcing the first annual “K-12 Online 2006″ convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. 30- Nov. 3 with the theme “Unleashing the Potential.” The
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Is the Internet good or bad? Should we ban it or embrace it? Is there a place for web 2.0 in our schools? These simplistic questions fail to acknowledge the complex and multifaceted aspects of digital literacy and digital content today. A practical question many people may ask themselves regarding the Internet is, “What constructive
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The BBC reported yesterday that Google has released a new blog search tool: http://blogsearch.google.com. The tool currently offers two primary sorting options: by “relevance” and by “date.” I don’t think this looks nearly as powerful as Technorati yet, but I’m sure the clever people at Google will continue to improve and tweak the interface and
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Nicholas Negroponte is one of my favorite thinkers about digital literacy (as the author of the 1995 book “Being Digital”) as well as a practical evangelist for the transformation of teaching and learning through the lever offered by 1:1 technologies (now via OLPC.) I was delighted to find this evening on the Internet Archive an
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