Category: web 2.0
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HigherEd BloggerCon 2006
HigherEd BloggerCon 2006 is: a fully web-based event focused on how new online communications technologies and social tools are changing Higher Education. Except as noted, presentations are offered free of charge. As a series of online events with a global audience, this promises to be superb. The slogan of the conference is: …transforming academic communities…
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PlaceOPedia
PlaceOPedia is a web 2.0 service connecting WikiPedia articles to geography. As a geographer myself, I am absolutely loving Google Earth and all the geographically-enabled web 2.0 services that are now available. I need to spend several hours playing with Google Earth like some of my friends did at FETC last week. I’ll be sharing…
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Podcast47: In Defense of Encyclopedia Britannica
In December 2005, Nature magazine published a controversial article arguing that WikiPedia was as accurate at worst or more accurate at best (considering it’s comparably larger size) than Encyclopedia Britannica. Last week at the Florida Educational Technology Conference, a Britannica employee spoke out in defense of the accuracy and greater value of Britannica compared to…
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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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Welcome to Web 2.0
I’ve updated my online workshop curriculum for tomorrow here at SITE 2006, “Welcome to Web 2.0.” As with my other published online materials, this is shared with a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license. Please feel free to use this with teachers or others where you live and work!
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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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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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Inviting skypecast input
Thanks to educators from the following places for filling out the short online survey about questions which should be addressed in the upcoming international skypecast tomorrow, and indicated interest in participating: Irving, Texas Piqua Ohio Scotland Wells, ME Snow Lake, Manitoba Xavier, Manitoba I have posted our survey results to Flickr, so far the following…
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Writely goes to Google
Writely, a web 2.0 word processor, has been purchased by Google. That will come as good news to some, who have wondered if a popular web service like Writely will last long-term because of bandwidth requirements brought on by a large user-base. Writely is one of many read/write web tools I’ll be introducing participants to…