Nice review, by Paul Baker “a public relations practitioner at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison” of this book by Gwen Solomon, Lynne Schrum.
A great book with wonderful windows on what is already being done, as opposed to what “might be” . . . the goal, I am sure, to spark the “what if” portion of the imagination in educators who see their work outside of the box (yea, cliche I know, but a classroom is usually nothing more than a big box – right?)
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Thanks for the link! The Web 2.0 book, along with Will Richardson’s “Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts” and Bard Williams’s “Educator’s Podcast Guide” represent a growing body of evidence that argue against the Chicken Littles of the world (including Andrew Keen, whose “Cult of the Amateur” argues that “today’s internet is killing our culture.”