The Moss-Free Stone

I had the privilege of presenting at the Texas Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development’s annual convention in Galveston, Texas on Monday. I took the opportunity to broadcast my presentation live for the first time, too. I shared ways our district’s teachers are using blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other free tools to engage students and [...]

First, a great explanation of Twitter, although it doesn’t do much justice to the way Twitter can be used more constructively as a means of sharing great resources and connecting learners:

This one is a new video explaining the basics of Internet searching:

Finally, as a public service during the Halloween season (I feel fairly certain this [...]

In the past couple of months, Google has added some really useful features and tools to their already massive list of Web 2.0 resources. Among them:

Reference materials have been added to Google Documents. Under the Tools menu, users can now access online dictionaries and Encylopedia Britannica. Also, basic web and image searches can be done [...]

Some useful tools that are either new or at least that haven’t been mentioned here…
Diigo (http://www.diigo.com) –Social bookmarking site that puts greater emphasis on the social aspect than other, similar sites. Users can create friends lists or groups. Saved bookmarks can be shared with all, some, or none of the friends and groups. Additionally, sites [...]

I was reading an article about yet another school district banning yet another social technology this morning, as Hattiesburg has protected its citizens by banning student-teacher communication via text messaging or social networks. No need to bother wasting precious testing-time crafting creative applications of such tools in order to take advantage of their popularity in [...]

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 [...]