Posted in Blogging, Blogroll, Educational Blogging, General Technology on Dec 31st, 2006 1 Comment »
As I sit here snuggled in on New Years Eve watching the DaVinci Code, I think back on what I have accomplished with my blog this past year. Well, looking back through my archives, I can’t say I did much with it — but that is ok. Created my blog in June but until November, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Educational Blogging, General Technology, Podcasting on Dec 21st, 2006 2 Comments »
This could be my last post of the year on my blog so I wanted to thank the blogging community for all the great blog posts. I have only entered the world of Web 2.0 this past summer but I can’t begin to say how much I have learned. I subscribe to about 20 blogs [...]
Posted in General Technology on Dec 14th, 2006 No Comments »
Time Magazine Invention of the Year for 2006 – YouTube
But even though they built it, they didn’t really understand it. They thought they’d built a useful tool for people to share their travel videos. They thought people might use it to pitch auction items on eBay. They had no idea. They had opened a portal [...]
Posted in General Curriculum on Dec 11th, 2006 No Comments »
Sometimes you find gold in a website. Well today that happened. Great site on news — Newseum. Newseum is an interactive museum of news. Some of the features are thumbnails of the front page of almost 500 newspapers in 49 countries — just click on the thumbnail to bring up the newspaper; Pulitzer prize winning [...]
Posted in General Technology on Dec 8th, 2006 No Comments »
Becky writes about her conversation with a teacher and notes:
Carl is a modern-day Socrates. Yet, unlike Socrates, Carl appreciates the value of the written word and enjoys reading, among other things, blogs. He believes that in this Age of Information Literacy we are morally obligated to teach the importance of integrity to our students, for [...]
Posted in Podcasting on Dec 7th, 2006 1 Comment »
Steve Sokoloski has listed some great references and examples of podcasting in an elementary school on his blog. I still have a lot to learn on podcasting. Hopefully after the holidays, these Web 2.0 tools will start coming together in an elementary environment. Finding that there are stumbling blocks to overcome when working with teachers, students, [...]
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