Category: web 2.0
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Great student project examples, lesson ideas and links integrating media #learning2cn
Today our team of cohort learning facilitators for the Learning 2.010 conference in Shanghai met and planned our activities for the next couple of days. I’m enthused to be working with Carol Jordan in the “Visual and Digital Literacy” cohort at the conference. Carol teaches Chemistry and “Theory of Knowledge” at the Shanghai American School.…
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Safely in Shanghai – Behind the Chinese Content Filters
After 24 hours of travel in airports and in airplanes, I’m pleased to report my safe arrival in my Shanghai hotel in advance of the Learning 2.010 Asia Conference which starts on Thursday. My wife dropped me off at the Oklahoma City airport on Monday morning just after 10 am, and I arrived here at…
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Share your 5 Photo Stories on Posterous!
Several years ago, Karen Montgomery created the Flickr Group, “Tell a Story with 5 Photos for Educators” to encourage visual literacy and this simple approach to digital storytelling: Using 5 images to share a visual story. This was inspired by the Flickr group, “Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling),” which is excellent…
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Time to ditch Diigo or pay up?
Revision 12 September 2010: Please note some of the perceptions I initially shared in this post were incorrect, and have been thankfully corrected by several people in the comments. Please be sure to read through to the comments. Understand at present with the newly announced Diigo premium policy: All free Diigo accounts support unlimited bookmarking.…
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Farewell Bloglines, my first digital newspaper
A number of years ago, probably around 2003 or 2004, I discovered the website Bloglines.com and the power of reading “web feed” content in a web-based RSS reader. I stuck with Bloglines for a couple of years, but at some point discovered Google Reader and ported all my feeds over to it. I haven’t looked…
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Collaborating on a debate assignment with Google Docs and Social Bookmarks
This evening I’m in Denton, Texas, and my son is back in Edmond, Oklahoma. He needed some help with his advanced debate class assignment, in which he’s researching the definition of “Objectivism” and writing some attacks as well as defenses for it. Thankfully, as a 7th grader he knows how to use both Google Documents…
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Day 1 experiences with a class blog on 21classes
This semester for my undergraduate “Computers in the Classroom” course I’ve setup a class blog on the website 21classes. Since the free version is limited to just 10 students, and I have 24 in my section, I went ahead and paid the $9 per month for the upgraded version. I like how the site is…
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PBworks spam cleanup on Great Book Stories
The Great Book Stories project continues to be one of the most successful wiki-based collaborative initiatives I’ve helped start. Its focus is sharing basic digital stories about different books, using the website VoiceThread. This evening, unfortunately, I noticed we’ve had some spam added to the site in past months. I’m not sure why, but although…