Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Well, that was too much fun flying around Second Life with Dave, Ewan, Tom, Doug, and others today in Second Life. I’m not sure what I think actually, other than it’s an absoultely amazing, um, place that could have some interesting applications for the classroom. In fact, I guess, it could be a classroom. But, […]

Jeff Lebow and Dave Cormier of Worldbridges have been kind enough to set up a tour of Second Life for us newbies who are feeling really clueless about the whole virtual environment thing. (That means me.) So, if you’re free tomorrow at 11 EST, head on over to Webcast Academy in the chat room and […]

Greetings from my first blog meetup in Scotland and here’s to many more to come. Here is John Johnson of Sandaig Primary School making me think. To see a whole bunch more pictures, try Ewan McIntosh’s Flickr stream. You can also check out the eLive 2006 Conference feed. I’ll write more tomorrow, but suffice to […]

As you know probably know, you can now set up an Intel based Macintosh computer so that it will start up in either Mac OS X or Windows XP. Now when you are wondering if you should purchase a Dell, Gateway, HP or other computer to run Windows XP, you can add Intel based Macintosh […]

Just in case any one might be interested in some late Sunday night ramblings, I had the good fortune of being on Ed Tech Talk #46 this weekend. Here is the link if you’re interested.

Ewan posted a link to a recent Mark Prensky talk that, despite being cutoff halfway through was well worth the listen on my early morning jog just now. (The toils of reinvention…) Even though I’ve come to find the whole natives/immigrants metaphor a bit overcooked, he does a great job of articulating how it is […]

I’ve been mentioning the work of Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach quite a bit here lately, and by the looks of things, that may continue. Today, she posted a reflection about her first year of work with a group of Alabama teachers to intergrate social netoworking tools into their practice in ways that would <i>positively impact student achivement</i>. […]

Scott Leslie created the very helpful “Matrix of Some Blog Uses in Education” a few years ago and yesterday he reported that it had been remixed into an interactive drag an drop tool that we can all add to. So if you want to start a conversation about what teachers can get from reading blogs […]

Here’s another example of how a wiki can generate some class goodness. Everybody posts a summary of a chapter in the text and voila, you have instant study guide. Statistics anyone? Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach organized it and writes:
The most exciting part is that we created a web resource that could be used as a teaching tool […]

Doug Johnson offered up a challenge to those of us railing against this dopey DOPA legisation to put our misery where our mouths are and offer up a list of the professional organizations we belong to who might challenge this, write a letter that others might use to contact their Congresspeople, and discuss any other […]

So here we go…let’s REALLY get around this messy job of educating our kids by just legislating away school access to not only MySpace but to any
…commercial Web sites that let users create public “Web pages or profiles” and also offer a discussion board, chat room, or e-mail service.
Including blogs, wikis, online gaming…
No joke. This […]

So I’m a little late to the party on this as well… Terry Freedman collected essays, interviews and narratives from a distinguished group of educators from around the world to create a nice work of contextual readings that will certainly help people get their brains around the Read/Write Web. Another shining example of “Web goodness” […]

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach points to Vaestro which looks to be a pretty interesting new tool where you can hold asynchronous voice discussions about any topic you want. I just posted a quick starter about how we might use it in the classroom, and I’d love to hear what you think. Darren’s already got a few discussions […]