Category: globalvoices
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China, WikiPedia, Flickr, Web 2.0 and The Tank Man
I was pleased to learn today (via Jeremy Goldkorn) that China has chosen to unblock WikiPedia. Andrew Lih theorizes the reason for the unblock is that WikiPedia is value neutral, and the Chinese government is glimpsing the constructive power of the read/write web. He writes: I believe it was because of the argument Jimmy Wales…
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Pitcairn Islands ClustrMap Mystery
We have a mystery on our hands, and I’m hoping you can help me solve it. As you probably know if you’ve been reading my blog for long, I am wholly captivated by ClustrMaps and the global nature of web 2.0 conversations which Internet access enables and tools like ClustrMaps reveal. From time to time…
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Simplifying collaborative videoconferencing
Despite all the technology around us in many U.S. schools, collaborative videoconferencing remains a rarity for many students and teachers. Certainly some schools utilize videoconferencing for foreign language, higher mathematics, or other types of high school courses– and students may be able to earn college as well as high school credits for successfully completing these…
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Join our skypecast: When Night Falls discussion!
The web address for the Vyew interactive whiteboard for our skypecast is http://vyew.com/room/085454. Darren Kuropatwa and I are going to host an open skypecast this coming Wednesday, October 11th starting at 9 pm US Central Time. Our topic is “When Night Falls Discussion.” “When Night Falls” will be the culminating event of the upcoming K-12…
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How to create a skypecast
This evening I created a 7 minute screencast (using the screen recorder included in freely downloadable SmartBoard software, incidentally) to explain how to create a free Skypecast. I’ve uploaded the screencast to YouTube (a first for me) and also embedded it below: Technically speaking, I did further compress the video as a MPEG-4 file using…
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The causes of freedom and social justice
I have just finished watching DVD #4 in the fantastic PBS series “Slavery and the Making of America” titled “Challenge of Freedom.” If we think we have things bad today in politics, we should all do a history lesson and study the period of Reconstruction following the US Civil War. As one of the commentators…
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Join in Global Learn Day!
Free, online international professional development for educators? K-12 Online at the end of the month is just one of our opportunities for exciting PD empowered by web 2.0 this month– another that begins October 7 and 8, 2006 is Global Learn Day. Now in its 10th year, Global Learn Day will feature an impressive lineup…
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Podcast86: K-12 Online Conference Invitation (via Worldbridges)
This podcast is a recording of a skype conversation on Worldbridges EdTechTalk, discussing some details of the upcoming FREE K-12 Online Conference that runs the last week of October and first week of November 2006. The theme of K-12 Online is “Unleashing The Potential,” and the focus is web 2.0 tools in the classroom and…
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Classroom Blog World Tour
I introduced some students and teachers at Greenville School today in south-central Oklahoma to the classroom blogosphere using a customized Google Earth KML file I named, the “Classroom Blog World Tour.” (This requires Google Earth.) I let students take turns “driving the mouse” on my laptop, connected to a LCD projector, while they literally “flew”…
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Thoughts on citizen journalism
“From Pamphlet to Blog” is a wonderful, short video about citizen journalism. It provides a good overview of what citizen journalism is, what potentials it has, and its possible future. Great use of interviews in this piece. I listened to a related NPR piece this week (but I can’t readily find the link) that mentioned…