Category: web 2.0
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Changing the Face of Our Educational Practice Using Web 2.0 Technologies
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM MARTIN LEVIN’S PRESENTATION AT EDUCOMM 2007. MARTIN IS THE TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR OF THE ARMIDALE SCHOOL IN AUSTRALIA. This preso is NC-17 – bare facts, course language, and textual references, extreme violence We live between Brisbane and Sydney in Australia We were seeing kids doing all kinds of interesting things: example…
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Building Schoolwide Online Collaboration
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM SCOTT PERLOFF’S PRESENTATION AT EDUCOMM 07. MY IDEAS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Scott is with the Milken Community High School found the combination of a web 2.0 application and someone who “owns” the event locally leads to much better results with online collaboration Computer supportive collaborative work and collaborative learning…
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K-12 Online proposal deadline extended
The deadline for submitting K-12 Online Conference 2007 proposals has been extended to Friday, June 22nd. Unfortunately, there was a glitch in the settings for our online proposal form (this was my fault and oversight) which only permitted one submission from an IP address. This meant that some people (or possibly some schools) who submitted…
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The conversation is open
Are the leaders in the edublogosphere “zealots,” as Tim Holt suggests? Are people being intentionally “not invited to the buffet” of conversations out here? Tim poses some good, challenging questions in these posts. Here are a few thoughts. I’ll be curious to read what you think. Ideas. Ideas are what really matter in the edublogosphere.…
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2 days left for K-12 Online presentation proposals
The deadline for presentation proposals for the 2007 K-12 Online conference is Monday, June 18th. If you haven’t yet, please submit a proposal in response to the call! This year’s conference promises to offer amazing opportunities for both learning and collaboration, but that all depends on the creative imaginations and contributions of teachers like you!…
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Taxonomy versus Folksonomy
I’ve written a new post on the TechLearning blog titled “Farewell, linear conversations?” Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, luddite, web2.0
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Podcast159: Welcome to the Global Education Conversation (Revised, focusing on 5 tools and 5 action steps)
This podcast is a recording of my keynote address today at the Oklahoma Public Schools’ district “Technology Enhancement Day.” I took the presentation I had shared (with the same title) in Holland, Michigan in April 2007, but rather than focus on professional development generally as well as more “big picture” change in school districts, I…
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Professional development and professional learning networks are key
I’ve been reading through some of the recent posts on the EduStat blog, and ran across Sheryl Nussbuam-Beach’s post “Teacher 2.0 – What Matters” reflecting on Joel Klein’s presentation at the “Teacher 2.0: Developing the 21st Century Workforce” conference. (Klein is the Chancellor of the New York Department of Education.) This is the paragraph that…
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Podcast158: Digitally Informed School Leadership for the 21st Century
This podcast was created and recorded on June 6, 2007, during a workshop with school principals and assistant principals in Humble ISD, near Houston, Texas. In the first section, administrators share instructional advice for new teachers. After a brief personal reflection, the podcast includes the culminating discussion between administrators who had read ideas from Doug…
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EduComm and NECC, coming up soon!
Sylvia Martinez wrote a good plug and summary of reasons to attend EduComm in a few weeks in Anaheim, California. (June 19-21) I’m looking forward to both attending and sharing some presentations there for the first time. My travel to southern California has been pretty limited in my lifetime, I can still count my number…