Category: web 2.0
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Social Networking, Web 2.0, and Learning: What the Research Says
These are my notes from Cheryl Lemke’s COSN09 session “Social Networking, Web 2.0, and Learning: What the Research Says.” MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Cheryl will be putting up a wiki soon with references and citations What is different about web 2.0? (discussion) Stanford and the Univ of Washington have a multi-million dollar grant…
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Preliminary Report of a National Survey of School Leaders on the Use of Web 2.0 in Schools
These are my notes from a COSN 2009 session, “Preliminary Report of a National Survey of School Leaders on the Use of Web 2.0 in Schools” on March 11, 2009, in Austin, Texas. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Key question for CoSN: “So What?” from Cheryl Lemke – this is very interesting…
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K12 Horizon Report (CoSN 2009)
These are my notes from the K-12 Horizon Report panel presentation at CoSN in Austin, Texas, on March 11, 2009. I’m Ustreaming this session and with connectivity as well as tripod/phone support issues I’m not able to really capture much via text. Horizon Report: Looking for meta-trends that are affecting schools worldwide http://horizon.nmc.org/k12/Main_Page some friends…
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The Challenges of Web 2.0 by Bob Martin
These are my notes from Bob Martin‘s presentation “The Challenges of Web 2.0″ at the COSN conference in Austin, Texas, on March 11, 2009. Bob is a technical trainer for MORENET, which is part of the University of Missouri. There is a disconnect we need to bridge – between tech directors and teachers, parents and…
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Podcast304: The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and Differentiated (learning@school09 keynote)
This podcast is an audio recording of my keynote address on February 27, 2009, in Rotorua, New Zealand, for the Learning@School 2009 Conference. I also included some reflections I recorded on stage just prior to the keynote. The official conference presentation description of this session was: Personalised, differentiated learning defines exemplary education in the 21st…
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Gabcast phone recording no longer free
Well this is a bummer, but perhaps not entirely unexpected. As of Sunday, March 1, 2009, Gabcast is NO LONGER offering free, phone-based audio recording to mp3 format. According to the Gabcast blog, the following changes are now in effect: No distinction among channel types (Free, Pro, Premium). There will only be one kind of…
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SlideCast: The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and Differentiated
I shared “The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and Differentiated” as the closing keynote at the Learning@School 2009 conference in Rotorua, New Zealand, last Friday. Today I finished adding all the referenced links to my presentation wiki page, and also added and synchronized the recorded audio from the presentation to SlideShare. The Landscape of…
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Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools by Erin Freeman and Heath Sawyer
These are my notes from Erin Freeman and Heath Sawyer’s presentation “Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools” at Learning@School 09 in Rotorua, New Zealand today. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. ERIN IS TEACHING AT AN AMAZINGLY INNOVATIVE SCHOOL WHICH PERMITS STUDENTS TO BRING THEIR OWN LAPTOPS TO SCHOOL. THEY HAVE FIVE CLASSROOMS…
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Creating and Managing Digital Portfolios Using Adobe Acrobat by Allanah King
These are my notes from Allanah King‘s presentation “Creating and Managing Digital Portfolios Using Adobe Acrobat” at Learning@School 09 today in Rotorua, New Zealand. Allanah on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AllanahK. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. 4 options to sabotage Wes’ keynote tomorrow – when you hear the terms “pedagogy” or “digital native” get up…
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Fun with XTimeline and myWebspiration
My eight year old daughter has been working on a biographical book report about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Tonight I helped her digitize her paper-and-pencil timeline with XTimeline and her character map using myWebspiration. Both are free web 2.0 tools I think are wonderful. Sarah posted a link to her timeline to our family learning blog,…