Entries from June 2008

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Live Blog: Free, Open Source, and Web 2.0 Software for the Classroom

Live blog (as long as my battery lasts…) of Steve Hargadon’s session at NECC.

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Monday, June 30th, 2008

Live Blog: International Collaboration

Hoping to get some assistance from this session with arranging collaborative projects with district’s teachers. We have had only limited success to date. Presenters are Diane Midness (iEARN) and Sharon Betts.

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Monday, June 30th, 2008

Live Blogging from NECC: Creating a Personal Learning Network in Second Life

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Thursday, June 12th, 2008

District Best Practices

I have had to do several projects involving putting together examples of Web 2.0 use in our district in the past couple of weeks. I thought I would share a small sampling of them here. They might inspire others to give some of the tools a try.
Blogs
Talented Texans–elementary students sharing writing. Student interaction is constructive [...]

Friday, June 6th, 2008

The World of We Think

Thanks to John Pederson, again, for leading me to another great video (and to Scott McLeod for leading John to it!). This simple, black-and-white video paints a vivid, colorful portrait of the changing of society that is happening as a result of evolving technologies.

A couple of questions came to mind when viewing the video.

Has the [...]

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Blogging for Work: How and Why

Here is a short, well-crafted slideshow created by Sacha Chua, an enterprise 2.0 specialist with IBM. It lists some very practical steps to blogging effectively for work, including doing lots of reading, sharing knowledge through writing, and tooting one’s own horn, so to speak, by sharing successes and accomplishments. Great focus on how blogs can [...]