Category: web 2.0
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Harry Potter Whiteboard Wands, Responders, and the Palm Pre
I recently had a chance to see and try out the “Activwand” from Promethean designed for use with their electronic white boards. This wand is definitely cool and fun to use, making one feel a bit like Harry Potter. For shorter students or teachers, it can be handy to permit a longer reach to the…
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Eric Langhorst demonstrates the power of Google Videoconferencing in a US history classroom
Eric Langhorst, an 8th Grade US History teacher in Liberty, Missouri, and the 2007/2008 Missouri State Teacher of the Year, is the author of one of my favorite educational podcasts. Last month, Eric posted a great podcast about his use of Google Videoconferencing (a relatively new feature of Google Chat in GMail) to bring a…
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VoiceThread Vandalism and our need to encourage constructive media creation
Here in the United States, we live in a relatively free society compared to some other nations. North Korea and China come to mind first in this regard, but there are many others too where individual freedoms are more sharply limited and restricted. I highly value and treasure those freedoms, and try not to take…
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Hero in the Hallway Video: Connections for student advocacy
The video “Hero in the Hallway” is one I often like to use as a conclusion for presentations with students about cyberbullying prevention. I’m sharing this blog post and question primarily for students at Howe High School in Mrs. Parks’ journalism class following our recent videoconference, but the following questions are open for anyone to…
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Google Sites is a great wiki and website builder
I love creating and editing webpages on wikis. Having spent a fair bit of time in the past, web 1.0 world creating sites in Dreamweaver, Frontpage (yes, I know, it was painful but necessary) and an old favorite, Claris Homepage, I REALLY appreciate the ease-of-use and automatic navigational features of Google Sites as well as…
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Contrasting recent Oklahoma City and Winnipeg morning radio coverage about education
I had a moment of significant cognitive dissonance this morning driving in to work, listening to the radio. photo credit: rakkasan69 This past Friday morning, for THREE HOURS, I was a minor guest on the Winnipeg, Manitoba radio station CJOB with Darren Kuropatwa, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Dean Shareski, and Darren’s former student Mark Rabena. The complete…
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A holiday lesson in ethics via Webkinz
Like a large number of North American households with Internet access and elementary age children this holiday season, our home was the scene of many hours logged on both Club Penguin and Webkinz the past couple weeks. After Christmas, we made a momentous purchase for our five year old: A new Webkinz Penguin she’s named…
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Skype Virtual Guest Speakers and Collaboration wiki
A few weeks before Christmas, I watched and blogged Dr. Z’s (Leigh Zeitz) webinar for ISTE on web 2.0 tools. Dr. Z mentioned Skype as a videoconferencing tool in the classroom, which can be used to bring in virtual guest speakers. I asked him during the webinar if he knew of any online directories for…
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Podcast298: An Interview on Manitoba Morning Radio with Darren Kuropatwa about Numeracy, Literacy, Student Summary Blogging, Digital Learning and the K-12 Online Conference
This podcast features a recording of the January 2, 2009, live morning radio show interview in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on CJOB|68 with Darren Kuropatwa, minus the news and advertisement breaks. The conversation focused on Darren’s utilization of scribe posts by his Calculus and Pre-Calculus students at Daniel McIntyre Academy in Winnipeg, the imporance of numeracy as…