Category Archives: Educational Technology

Web 2.0 in the classroom

Posted on December 8, 2007 by

Exciting interview with Lucy Gray from U of Chicago discussing Web 2.0 applications in the classroom. She only touches the tip of the iceberg but you can catch up with many of the ideas she has on her blog. Keep … Continue reading →

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Are you properly licensed to teach your child?

Posted on December 7, 2007 by

If you are a parent who believes in teaching your children anything – you better have a license – or so it would seem in light of a decision by the District 2 Court of Appeals in Wisconsin this week. … Continue reading →

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Where the Web is going . . .

Posted on November 30, 2007 by

Worth the listen! The WWW’s innovator has a few words about where things are going . . . be sure to listen to Scoble’s follow-up interview afterwards . . . now my particular soap box, where do things go from … Continue reading →

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No more bent students . . .

Posted on November 30, 2007 by

My son is a freshman in high school this year, and though I have seen it during my 23 years of teaching it hits home even more since he is my son: he is carrying around 50 pounds of stabilized … Continue reading →

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Teachers should be anonymous . . .

Posted on November 29, 2007 by

My friend Paul Baker quoted me in a post about an article at eSchool News discussing Ohio’s “warning” to teachers to avoid social networking via the Internet. The article doesn’t suggest limits, it seems to be a suggestion of complete … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools

Posted on November 29, 2007 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Social Annotation as learning tool

Posted on November 27, 2007 by

I came across a website almost two months ago, Diigo and decided to take a look today, maybe it is just me, but it sparked a number of exciting thoughts about potential educational applications . . . Simply put, Diigo … Continue reading →

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