Elluminate Live Stream: http://tinyurl/cr20liveDescription: Quick 2 minutes previews of some cool Web 2.0 ToolFacilitator(s): Steve Hargadon, anyone else!Storybird.com – Social Tool to create digital book (flash based)goofram.com – Like google. Combines information with wolfram calculated resultsqrcode.kaywa.com – Barcode generatormashpedia.com – Real time, multimedia, social encyclopediapaper.li – create newspaper based around a twitter tag
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I will fully admit that I could very well be wrong with what I am about to argue, and if I am, please, comment and let’s talk it out, but, one of the ways that I think educational technology evangelists to a disservice to classrooms adopting technologies is by overselling technologies as a cost-saving or [...]
As part of my paperless classroom experiment, I have used Glogster as a media-centric postermaking tool. I like Glogster: it is flexible, easy to use and seemingly quite powerful.
I can see the lure of Glogster for teachers of K-12 content because it is incredibly easy to marry content and media. I think Glogster understands the [...]
Google announced today that it is allowing users to upload any file to their Google Docs service. http://bit.ly/4rqh3q This is great that they are expanding their services, but they are late to the game on this one. We have raved about Dropbox http://bit.ly/6uIy6E before, but Google’s announcement reinforces how currently, Dropbox is in a class [...]
I find myself hearing both sides of the argument when Robert Pondiscio tells the story of economist Thomas Sowell’s grumpy reaction to a well-meaning 5th grader asking about our souring economy.
I can see both sides. It seems like it might not be a useful exercise if that student can understand the fundamentals of the argument. [...]
So what is Prezi? Prezi takes the traditional liner presentation and turns it on it’s head…literally. The presentations are stunning. At first I thought this was a cool way to spice up presentations but after working in Prezi for awhile the true power I see in this tool is its ability to act as a [...]
The halfway point of my summer “vacation” came and went this morning and despite the fact that I was overwhelmed with joy that this past, tough school year ended, I am now growing in excitement for the next school year.
I have a number of exciting changes to my teaching assignment next year, some of which [...]
Many knew it was coming, but today it became official….jumpcut is no more. This is a blow to the Web 2.0 toolkit for the classroom. While there were some imperfections, (mainly the time it takes to upload video – an ongoing issue for sites dealing with video editing) this was a solid web app for [...]
Since the very beginning, I have be doubtful of the power of Twitter for regular folks. Sure, I have listened to the A-level bloggers talk about the power of their learning networks but honestly, I would probably expect more response to my Twitter requests for information if my network was as large as Will Richardson [...]
Much like the loss of free services in the dot.com bust of the late 1990s, it appears that the souring economy is taking its toll on Web 2.0 services. This gives the need for Web 2.0 to have a meaningful business plan all the more urgency as popular webtools that were great classroom tools are [...]
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