Whew! What a crazy week-and-a-half! I had the opportunity to make 5 presentations in 3 cities, including 3 in one day yesterday. Topics ranged from student achievement vs. 21st century skills to live streaming of school events/instruction to my personal favorite, a requested session on Twitter. This gave me the opportunity to articulate just why [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Library of Congress has added a collection of its photos to picture-hosting site Flickr. The collection currently includes over 3,000 images, categorized as “1930s-1940s in Color” and “News in the 1910s“. Visitors are encouraged to tag images or leave comments that will help categorize the pictures. According to ReadWriteWeb, the permanence of the collection [...]
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