Category: blogs
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Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts
Will Richardson’s new book, “Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms,” is available for order from Amazon.com. Sure, you can read (and should be reading) Will’s blog regularly, but many teachers (myself included) still prefer curling up with a book in the evening to read rather than a laptop! Will’s perspective on…
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Discovery Educator Network Regional Institutes
Looking for a great summer professional development opportunity related to the latest innovations in educational technology? Apply to attend one of the Discovery Educator Network Regional Institutes. You’ve got six more days to submit an electronic application. Discovery Education is covering many of the costs, and the training looks great! According to DEN: The Discovery…
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A meeting of the minds
Many, many, many thanks to the awesome folks at the Discovery Educator Network for bringing together a super group of educators from around Florida and the nation this evening in Orlando for dinner. I was glad to see and visit with Tim Wilson (The Savvy Technologist) again (who I met last summer thanks to Apple):…
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Bush on Blogs – NCLB reflections
Yesterday, President Bush talked about “blogs” for the first time ever (according to TV press sources today.) He encouraged U.S. citizens (and others) to read milblogs to get a broader perspective on what is happening in Iraq’s civil war. Here is an excerpt from the President’s speech, and his reference to blogs: One of the…
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Education is conversation
Wow. This has been quite a week and it is not yet over. I have been having some outstanding discussions and challenging opportunities to think at the SITE 2006 conference in Orlando, and have had the chance to meet face-to-face many individuals who I have previously “met virtually” and engaged in dialog with in the…
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Can you hear me now?
SITE 2006 keynote by Janet Swenson (3/21/2006 in Orlando, Florida) – Can you hear me now? Composing Connections Between Classrooms and Communities – professor at Michigan State Univ, directs the writing center [This presentation is also available as a podcast, with Janet’s generous permission] Janet came to the attention of SITE leaders because of her…
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The new story dialog continues
David Warlick has posted a blog entry as well as a podcast in response to last week’s international skypecast focusing on his ideas about telling the new story! I’ll be reading and listening to this on Monday as I make my way to Orlando for the SITE 2006 and FETC 2006 conferences. 🙂
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Liberian Refugees and Bloggers
I just finished watching Andy Carvin’s compelling short film, “Refugees: The Liberians of Buduburam.” Wow. I am not sure where to begin writing about my response to this. Let me start by noting the chain of connections and links that led me to this video. Yesterday on a long car drive back to Lubbock, we…
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Podcast 40: Defining and Telling the New Story
Over the Pond and Through the Fiber #2: This international skypecast features educators from Canada, Scotland, and the United States defining and discussing the new story David Warlick has challenged us to help tell with our students. We probably raised more questions than we answered, but again it was exciting as well as empowering to…
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Spam Karma updated
If you are using WordPress as your server-based blogging software, you need to be running the free Spam Karma plugin. A new version is out (2.2) and works better than ever.