Category: web 2.0
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Free Wikispace for Educators
Thanks to an email from Adam Frey of Tangient this week, I learned that WikiSpaces is now providing free, advertising-free wikis for educators! This is superb. I highly commend WikiSpaces to students and educators, especially for collaborative projects. A couple of weeks ago, educators in Miami, Texas used WikiSpaces to share their work and workshop…
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Collaboratively thinking about school reform
I removed some advertising and virtual vandalism today from David Warlick’s “Hack The System” Wiki page, and also added some additional points under “what we teach,” “how we teach,” and “assessment.” David has extended a global invitation to web 2.0 users to collaboratively reflect and write about the ways schools should change in the 21st…
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Edifying student bloggers
Mark Ahlness’ Mighty Writers are 3rd grade students at Arbor Heights Elementary School in Seattle, Washington. I think pre-service teachers in certification courses should be required to visit classroom blogs like Mighty Writers and leave positive, supportive comments and feedback for the students. This assignment can potentially both edify the young student writers, and educate…
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The Synchronous Non-interactive Fallacy
Why do so many college professors suffer under the delusion that students should want to come to class when their instructor drones on and on in lecture, and does not provide opportunities for interaction?! In the LA Times article from January 16, 2006, “The iPod Took My Seat,” multiple professors are quoted who reveal their…
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Web 2.0 Audio Conversations
For several weeks now I have been having fun playing with the fantastic web 2.0 tool Yackpack. Last night and today, I finally setup a family “pack” and turned my kids loose on it. I could hardly get them to stop! My youngest even caught the contagious enthusiasm and had to get in the act…
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Amazed by Skype and Web 2.0
I just finished the most amazing experience of my brief lifetime using educational technology. Darren Kuropatwa in Canada, Ewan McIntosh in Scotland, along with Miguel Guhlin and I in the United States all had an hour long skype conversation discussing some critical questions relating to web 2.0. I have just put the recorded skype conversation…
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Wikispaces
Wikispaces is: a place where you can easily build web pages with other people. Signing up and creating your own wiki space is fast, free, and easy. I have just used jot.com and the wiki options in Moodle up to this point when building my own wikis, besides a brief foray with MoinX (very positive…
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No friends?
Well, thankfully this is not true! I find the graphic pretty amusing, however! Since I have not yet found anyone I identify as a “friend” in the Yelp social network, the image above is on my personal yelp page. Full disclosure: I have not spent more than a few minutes “yelping” up to this point.…
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Upcoming.org
According to the website, upcoming.org is: a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site. I am currently using RSSCalendar on my blog, but I may give upcoming a try. RSSCalendar is for sharing personal calendar events,…
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Luddite criticisms of technology and modernism
I had a wonderful Skype conversation with Miguel Guhlin this evening for an hour and a half. We were discussing presentation ideas for an April 3rd “Improving Student Learning through Technology-Best Practices” administrator in-service in Fort Worth where we are both speaking. Much of our conversation tonight focused on frustration with systemic-level school reform efforts,…