Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I’ve been thinking a lot (again) about where we’re at with all of this from a student perspective and wondering (again) why it is that there aren’t more examples of kids using blogs (in particular) to make their thinking and learning transparent. I mean there is no doubt that more and more teachers are using […]

Ok…so this one treads pretty close to home, for a number of reasons. (Read between the lines if you must.) But I think it’s worth sharing anyway. Yet another example of what can happen when you put (fairly) easy publishing tools in the hands of the masses (with access). View and discuss.
technorati tags:youtube, education, schools

Wes added the lastest tally of submissions for the incredibly awesome not-to-be-missed first annual ground-breaking highly educational and fabulously interesting K12 Online Conference that’s coming up in (ohmygosh) about a month. If you have an idea (or 7) that you’d like to offer as a presentation, head on over to the online submission form immediately […]

…that Jeff Utecht’s kids in Shanghai are publishing a series of History of Technology videos to YouTube that most American kids probably won’t be able to see?
What’s not surprising is that because they are being uploaded to YouTube, Jeff’s students are starting to understand the reach of what they can do.
We talked about what these […]

So a couple of days ago I downloaded the new version of Skype for OS X and now my video camera won’t work with it and I can’t even access the Preferences. No help from Skype seems forthcoming. Anyone having the same issues or can tell me how to get back the older version which […]

I had the real pleasure of attending a presentation today by Lev Gonick, the CIO of Case Western Reserve University, who spent about an hour talking about the OneCleveland project that he’s been involved in for the past five years. In a nutshell, OneCleveland is all about aggregating unused broadband that’s already in existence and […]

I haven’t been back to SecondLife in a while, but after seeing the news that Harvard Law is offering a course there this fall, I’m starting the download to my MAC as we, um, speak. Charlie Nesson and his daughter will be teaching CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion in meat space, but […]

So here is another example of what elementary kids can do in terms of publishing text and audio to the Web. This is the Top of the Fold online newspaper that Grandview Elementary in Monsey, NY uses to publish student artwork, podcasts and more. The teachers have a lot to do with posting the work, […]

Someone contacted me and said that everytime he reads my RSS feed, thinkfree.com opens up a window with my document in it, the one I posted about a few days ago. Anyone else experiencing the same effect? I may have to take out the window…
technorati tags:welogged, thinkfree

Jonathan Seal points to an article in this week’s US News magazine that is a comprehensive discussion on both sides of the MySpace issue. The bottom line is the same: yes, there are dangers, but if we teach our kids, we can make them safe. Oft quoted Parry Aftab says that “parents are chicken” when […]

Konrad Glogowski and Barbara Ganley should get together and write the “Blogging as Writing Genre” book (or at least an article.) Konrad’s post today begins to bring to light the findings of his classroom research about blogging, and it’s a fascinating read. There is much here that makes me long for the writing classroom once […]

Not sure how many have been following the LonelyGirl15 story…I’ve been catching snippets here and there…but Danah Boyd has the lowdown on yet another example of what’s happening on the Web that we educators might want to get our brains around. To really break it down, it’s a story of the power of digital storytelling, […]

Adam Frey and the gang at Wikispaces want to give away 100,000 free wikis to educators and I think we should help them meet their goal, don’t you? You can create a public space that is open to anyone, a protected space where anyone can see the work but only members can edit, or a […]