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Capturing ideas has been on my mind lately. I use evernote when working, but I often get the best ideas away from my computer either while on a walk or on a bike ride. I usually have my phone with me, I [...]
Conference Crashing 101
Massachusetts Computer using educators annual conference takes place this week. To have one place to monitor, listen and watch what is going on I created a public page on netvibes that monitors the tags masscue and masscue09.
As soon as actual attendees post online via twitter, flickr, delicious, diigo, and blogs, it will feed to [...]
It continues to amaze me how the learning network that I am immersed in seems to have a life of its own. This was the conversation it was having this weekend.
I was reading this brave post by Lisa Thumann “I just don’t like technology” about how to deal with a comment from a professional [...]
This youtube video about using twitter in the college classroom came to my attention from a retweet by @edutopia to student’s blogpost at Butler Collision Repair Blog
This is really worth taking the time to watch. It explains how twitter can be used to encourage deeper student participation in a discussion when they are in a [...]
Back to school is a good time to commit to searching out tools online that students can really use to make learning more effective. These are the top 12 free tools that I use with teachers and students and they can be found year round on my public netvibes page.
Many [...]
A list is being compiled for the top ten learning tools for 2009.
I added my top ten for 2009. I did this very quickly via twitter and just tried to concentrate on the tools I use and find useful on a regular basis. If you look at the list, my contribution is number 117. It [...]
At MIT Saturday for the Project New Media Literacies “Learning in a Participatory Culture” Conference.
Goals of the conference were to
Launch the New Media Literacies learning library
“the learning library is a flexible online-learning environment that incorporates an expanding collection of multimedia elements and challenges and offers users the opportunity to design and contribute their own related marterials.” Threshold Spring 09 [...]
This week I had the opportunity to run the monthly faculty meeting, along with the school librarian.
The purpose was to debrief the schools’ recent technology showcase to gather feedback and show off some of the projects that resulted.
We organized 6 groups, each was to discuss one of the following 6 questions
1. Reflect on the level of [...]
Delicious is my social bookmarking site of choice. If you don’t have an account-get one here and if you don’t know what social bookmarking is, this video will explain. This is for those who already use delicious and might want to learn more.
Did you know
1. You can backup your delicious account by exporting a html file of your bookmarks. [...]
This week I attended three webinars. Each was full of energy and lots of learning through experience was had by all.
Webinar 1 Digital Storytelling
The first was an ISTE seminar by BernaJean Porter on how to craft a digital story. The archive can be found here. The ides put forth will be very useful when coaching a [...]
