The Moss-Free Stone

One of the most amazing things that technology affords us today is the platform it provides for creating and sharing powerful works of self-expression. Through digital storytelling, we and our students can produce compelling works that are meaningful, humorous, therapeutic, touching, and thought-provoking. A quick search on YouTube of recent submissions produced these gems. Enjoy!

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At the Decatur Jump! event last week and, for that matter, anytime I share with any group a sampling of Web 2.0 technologies, I reminded participants not to be overwhelmed, but to consider their own curriculum and their own students and to try to identify 2 or 3 tools which would be most beneficial to [...]

I had the absolute pleasure of speaking to and training teachers in Decatur ISD for the second consecutive year. I spoke with them on Tuesday about 21st century skills, characteristics of effective classrooms, and Web 2.0 tools. I encouraged them to respond with comments and questions, and they did not disappoint, leading to some great [...]

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Firefox is continuing to grow in user numbers, with over 8 million users downloading the 3rd version of the browser on its June 18th release day, a world record for a software download. The worldwide market share of Firefox topped 19% by the end of June (story). One of the biggest appeals of Firefox for [...]

Thanks to Chris Lehmann for sharing Wordle, a very interesting tool for creating a tag cloud from Del.icio.us bookmarks or a visual representation of any site. Mine is below (Click to see in its full-sized glory.):

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I finally was successful at uploading a video of some interviews I conducted this spring with students who published their writing to a class blog this year. In just six months, the students’ blog had over 1,000 visitors from six continents! What an effective way to motivate our students to write! The blog also includes [...]

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

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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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