Category: web 2.0
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Join the K12Online08 conversation on It’s Elementary tonight!
Join the educators hosting the webcast “It’s Elementary” on EdTechTalk this evening at 6 pm CST (10-6-08 4 pm PDT/ 7 pm EDT/ 23:00 GMT) to discuss the 2008 K-12 Online Conference which begins in a week! I’m pleased to report that AT LAST our professional development credit wiki for the 2008 conference has been…
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Some Moodle lessons learned
I’ve spent a fair bit of time the past few weeks working in Moodle to create a randomized quiz for students visiting the museum where I work after their field trips, as well as a teacher evaluation survey. I am really enjoying the opportunity my new job role is affording me to create social media…
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Podcast285: TechShoppingCart Episode 10 – Challenges with Integrating Web 2.0 in Schools
Welcome to episode 10 of the Technology Shopping Cart Podcast, recorded as a live webcast on September 26, 2008. This episode features a conversation with Bob Martin and Brad Meyerhoff, educational technology trainers for MOREnet in Missouri. Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer visited with Bob and Brad about the challenges which sometimes arise when teachers…
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Tech Shopping Cart Webcast this morning: Challenges of Web 2.0 Integration
You’re cordially invited to join Karen Montgomery and I at 3 pm GMT today (that’s in an hour – 10 am US Central time) for another live, webcast episode via Ustream.tv of our “Technology Shopping Cart” podcast series. This week we are focusing on the theme “Challenges of Integrating Web 2.0 in the Classroom” and…
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Podcast284: Media Literacy as Literacy for the Information Age by Dr. Renee Hobbs
This podcast is a recording of Dr. Renee Hobbs’ keynote at the 2008 OTEP Reading Conference on September 19, 2008 at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma. The title of her keynote was “Media Literacy as Literacy for the Information Age.” The conference theme was “Critical Literacy for Adolescents.” The Oklahoma Teacher Enhancement Program…
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K-12 Online Conference Teasers: Here Comes Digital Learning!
It is not an exaggeration to say I remain enthused about the no-cost K-12 Online Conference year round. This time of year, however, just a month away from the start of the actual conference it’s easy to be even MORE excited, particularly with the release of so many TEASER TRAILERS in the past week. Here…
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So what is NOT K-12 Online going to be in 2008?
I’m not sure. That will depend largely on what the online education community chooses to make of the event, I think. Bud Hunt’s post “Not” shed’s some good light on this question, however. Bud writes: So what will NotK12Online look like? Well, it’s pretty much an aggregator populated by user submissions. If you have a…
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Delicious visual tag clouds, Classroom eZines, Wikis as files and Creating the Universe with Spore
I learned about several new sites and tools this morning thanks to conversations with James Deaton and Eric Hileman. Wordle can be used to view a tag cloud of a delicious.com user’s contributions, so you can get a quick, visual picture of the ways that person tags the web. Here’s my current Wordle delicious.com tag…
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Podcast282: A Conversation with Superintendent Doug Taylor about Student Engagement, Digital Storytelling, and Collaborative Digital Technologies
This podcast is a recorded conversation with Doug Taylor, superintendent of Gage Public Schools in Oklahoma, at the EncycloMedia conference on Thursday, September 18, 2008. Doug discusses how students and teachers in Gage schools are utilizing netbooks like the Asus eeePC, open source software programs, Linux, and Google Documents. Gage educators are realizing the benefits…