Archive for September, 2007

Post by Will Richardson .. about Web 2.0 in education

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Read It’s Not Just the “Read/Write” Web  post and subsequent comments on http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/its-not-just-the-readwrite-web/.
What is one opinion or idea that you can take from this thread of discussion? Comment below.
  

Student Engagement, Visual Learning and Technology: Can Interactive Whiteboards Help?

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Student Engagement, Visual Learning and Technology: Can InteractiveWhiteboards Help?William D. Beeland, Jr. Abstract: The purpose of this action research study was to determine the effect of the use of interactive whiteboards as an instructional tool on student engagement. Specifically, the desire was to see if student engagement in the learning process is increased while using [...]

Stephen Downes website and presentations

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Especially interesting was Stephen’s analogy of a move from learning being like searching for information/knowledge through a library .. and rather today’s learning should be seen as a utility, like electricity or water – it flows in a network that we tap in to when we want it. See www.downes.ca and E-Learning 2.0 in Development [...]

http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Quote from Susan Sedro <ssedro@gmail.com>This isn’t a kid website, but a teacher one. Clarence Fisher in Snow Lake, Canada write a blog called Remote Access. He has been doing amazing things with blogs, wikis, video, audio and RSS with his 7th and 8th graders. Grab a good cup of coffee, and settle down for an [...]

5000 Web 2.0 and online resources

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Go to mashable’s list 
Here are a few examples …
6 Key Ways to Measure Your Blog’s Success – Six essential tools for measuring how your blog is performing.
30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins
- AJAX provides a way to have pages auto-update to reflect new data
without page reloads. These are 30+ tools written for your WordPress
blog with this [...]

ICDL – International Children’s Digital Library

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

ICDL – International Children’s Digital Library
Our Mission
The mission of the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world’s children to become members of the global community – children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas — by making the best in children’s [...]

Learning by teaching … a great post by Jo McLeay

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Check it out …. http://sandcastle.edublogs.org/2007/09/04/iteach-ilearn/

Questions, questions, questions ..

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

… and hopefully we will have some answers!!!!