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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Educational web 2.0 tools

    Solution Watch’s post “Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0” has a very comprehensive list of read/write web tools of interest to educators and students. There are quite a few here I had not heard of before, some of the more interesting are: Gradefix: “Gradefix intelligently organizes and prioritizes all of your homework…

  • Nontraditional peer review

    Much of web 2.0 content is peer reviewed, but certainly not in the traditional sense. In academic circles, the “peer review process” is highly regarded as a means for filtering out sloppy research and bestowing prestige on the “best and the brightest” in the academic research community. Traditional peer review of research has been around…

  • Join in Global Learn Day!

    Free, online international professional development for educators? K-12 Online at the end of the month is just one of our opportunities for exciting PD empowered by web 2.0 this month– another that begins October 7 and 8, 2006 is Global Learn Day. Now in its 10th year, Global Learn Day will feature an impressive lineup…

  • University changes mind on Skype

    I blogged last week about San Jose State’s decision to block access to Skype, now it appears the university has relented and will allow Skype use by students and faculty. According to arstechnica: On-campus criticism of San Jose State’s decision was strong, with professor Steve Sloan rallying colleagues and students to protest the ban, which…

  • Podcast86: K-12 Online Conference Invitation (via Worldbridges)

    This podcast is a recording of a skype conversation on Worldbridges EdTechTalk, discussing some details of the upcoming FREE K-12 Online Conference that runs the last week of October and first week of November 2006. The theme of K-12 Online is “Unleashing The Potential,” and the focus is web 2.0 tools in the classroom and…

  • Vyew and online collaboration

    Ever since I participated in my first skypecast, I’ve wanted and hoped to find a web-based tool that would permit interactive whiteboarding and even screensharing. Web 2.0 guru Cheryl Oakes is, as always, on top of the latest tool developments and brought Vyew.com to my attention in her latest Seedlings podcast on Bit-by-Bit. According to…

  • Please submit a proposal for K-12 online!

    As you may already know, the first annual FREE K-12 online conference is coming up at the end of October and beginning of November. Even if you have never presented at a conference before (online or face-to-face,) I encourage you to consider sharing a presentation for K-12 Online. “Presentations” are recorded screencasts, audiocasts, or videos…

  • CUE Opposes DOPA

    I was delighted to learn from Mike Lawrence today that CUE (Computer-Using Educators, Inc. based in California) has formally taken a stand against DOPA: the proposed “Deleting Online Predators Act” that passed the US House of Representatives this summer and still waits for consideration by the US Senate. CUE’s statement on DOPA is: Computer Using…

  • Great web 2.0 tools for students

    Sindya Bhanoo has posted a nice top 10 list of read/write web tools students can use for educational purposes. Although the post is ostensibly for college students, most of these tools can be used powerfully in the K-12 space as well. Tools on the list I had not heard of before include: Soundslides – Storytelling…

  • Portaportal and flexibly learning new tools

    Even if you have specialized webpage authoring software like Dreamweaver or Frontpage on your computer, know how to use it, and have FTP or other “uploading” access configured to a webserver– Getting content online with these “web 1.0” tools can be a needless hassle for many purposes compared to web 2.0 tools like wikis. I…