Category: web 2.0
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Best Practices for Encouraging Learning 24/7: Models that Work!
These are my notes from the NECC 2009 session “Best Practices for Encouraging Learning 24/7: Models that Work!” Official program description is: Several distinguished educators will offer actual examples of 24/7 learning approaches to educational practice. Can these technology-based, best practices inform your classroom teaching? Presenters are: Michael Searson, Kean University with Judith Beaver, Andrew…
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A great day of conversations at EduBloggerCon09
We had a great day of conversations today at EduBloggerCon09! Hat tip to Peggy George for sharing this original photo! My posts for the day were: – EduBloggerCon: Web 2.0 Smackdown – Wish a particular tool existed? Learn how to get it made! We’ll design a tool together – Leveraging social media tools for social…
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Leveraging social media tools for social change
These are some links and resources from Mark Wagner‘s EduBloggerCon 2009 session “Social Media and Social Change in Education” www.thelifeyoucansave.com – website for the book Mark read enroute to NECC which relates to these ideas of social change, social justice, etc. Danger can be creating an “us” and “them” mentality Idea can be helping groups…
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Wish a particular tool existed? Learn how to get it made! We’ll design a tool together
These are my notes with links to Mark Wagner’s facilitated session at EduBloggerCon09 titled, “Wish a particular tool existed? Learn how to get it made! We’ll design a tool together.” Google Docs Mass Uploader (free from Mark Wagner) – Mark paid $300 to have a coder in India create this tool, and used Rent a…
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EduBloggerCon: Web 2.0 Smackdown
These are my notes from the Web 2.0 Smackdown session at EduBloggerCon 2009. I arrived about 15 minutes after the session got started. Google Similar Images: now integrated with regular image search Similar Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words. Click the “Similar images” link under an image to find…
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Sharing by default and empowering others to share
I listened to a presentation recently in which the speaker exhorted listeners to “share by default.”* Often in schools, sharing is sharply limited for students as well as for teachers. This needs to change. The Creative Commons video, “A Shared Culture,” makes a compelling case for “sharing by default” and empowering others to share their…
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Blogging TCEA 2006: Create, Share & Access
In the fall of 2005, I was surprised when leaders of the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) decided not to publish one of the articles I’d submitted for their quarterly magazine, The TechEdge. I’d faithfully contributed to and published in the TechEdge since 1996-97, and this was the first time I’d ever been told, “No.…
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Blending Professional Development to focus on Content, Technology and Pedagogy
In the May 2009 issue of “Learning and Leading with Technology” Punya Mishra and Matthew Koehler discuss the TPACK framework in their article, “Too Cool for School? No Way!” The article is available electronically to ISTE members only. According to Mishra and Koehler: Expert teachers consciously and unconsciously find ways to orchestrate and coordinate technology,…
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Podcast320: Lessons Learned Recording, Editing, and Publishing Digital Audio
This podcast is a collection of recorded audio from a workshop shared with teachers in Gadsden City Schools, Alabama, on June 10, 2009. In the workshop, teachers learned how to use a Sony UX-70 mp3 digital audio recorder to record audio in an oral history interview. Teachers also learned how to use free Audacity software…