Category: blogs
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Weblogs to Promote Creative Expression and Reflective Practice in E-Learning Environments
Weblogs to Promote Creative Expression and Reflective Practice in E-Learning Environments an eLearn2005 presentation by: Beverly B. Ray, Idaho State University, USA; Martha Hocutt, University of West Alabama, USA; Susan K Patterson, Rhode Island College, USA Abstract: Instructors designing online learning environments that promote creative expression and reflective practice may find Weblogs a useful tool.…
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Blog software comparison chart
The Blog software comparison chart that accompanies the article “Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool?” by Susannah Gardner is a great reference source on blogging tools. I currently use WordPress as my primary blogging tool, but also use Blogger for some team blogs and several podcast feeds I maintain. One of…
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Another 2nd Grade podcast
A second edition of “Mills Murfee Podcasts” by the 2nd graders at Murfee Elementary School is available online. Program length is 5 minutes. This show features Student News, Planting Science, Amazing Sports, Tall Tales, and a Teacher Interview! 🙂 Thanks to 3rd and 4th graders in Bob Sprankle’s classroom in Wells, Maine for the “shout…
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Vlogging and free journalism
“Report It Now” is a grassroots video blogging (vblogging) initiative that again, offers a glimmer of how disruptive and exciting social technologies like RSS are and can be. Just think where we will be when thousands of students across the globe are armed with laptops and PC cameras, and are invited to be local news…
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Videoblogging for iPods
If you are interested in some initial reports about the new functionality in QuickTime Pro 7.0.3 that allows an export for iPod video, you might check out this post by Alan Fraser. Also, and maybe even more informative, check out Apple’s online tutorial for creating video podcasts with QuickTime Pro. Does the pace of all…
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This revolution is personalized
We are in the midst of a Web 2.0 revolution. It was great fun to welcome 24 teachers in Miami, Texas (town population about 600, student school population about 118) today to the revolution. Many jumped in with both feet, with several even adding to the WikiPedia entry for Miami, Texas during the workshop. And…
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Welcome to Web 2.0 Workshop
Just finished up my online curriculum for the “Welcome to Web 2.0 Workshop” I am teaching tomorrow. If you have any feedback or suggestions on this please let me know by commenting here! The results of my spell check for this workshop curriculum are telling. These results indicate we are talking about new stuff here!…
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MyWeb2.0 and Findory
Yahoo has a new free tool similar to del.icio.us for tagging website favorites named “MyWeb2.0” (http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com). Haven’t tried it yet but probably will since I’m a Yahoo mail user. Probably will stick with del.icio.us since I am already heavily invested in it, whatever the features. I also found the free web service Findory (http://findory.com). Looks…
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RSS Visualizer
This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger includes a new screensaver called “RSS Visualizer.” After you have added an RSS feed in Safari, you can select this screensaver in system preferences and under options choose a desired RSS feed. Then whenever your screen saver comes…
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1001 for Flickr and Digital Photo Frame Idea
1001 is a desktop flickr client currently in beta for Mac OS X. Really amazing. You can access photo streams of your existing Flickr contacts and groups, but also add custom photo streams for tags you want to track. This is immensely powerful. Using RSS, this is “pull” technology in action for photostreams. The program…