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Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'

Picture of a 21st Century Classroom

January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Thanks to Darren for sharing this via Twitter. When I opened it up I was hit by the resemblance to a classroom of today, only in a 21st Century environment, YouTube.

Image link: http://flickr.com/photos/bcsmith/2159355724/

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Tags: 2020 Schools · Video · Web 2.0 · education · learning

Students 2-Oh (My Gosh)

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Just came across this this morning as I was skimming some “tweets” on my Twitter network this morning. Arthus, posted that he was checking on and talking up Student2.0.
I’m excited about this. I love the line “Watch out Edublogosphere… the silent majority is here” at the end of this video. I wonder, [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Connecting · Students 2.0 · education · learning

Getting Others Started in E-Learning

September 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I had the pleasure of being informally interviewed by Sue Waters from Perth, Australia. Sue had reached out to her network of online colleagues (via Twitter, Google Talk, and Gmail) to solicit input on how to get other educators to experience the benefits of e-learning. The interview was a conversation and she did [...]

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Tags: Connecting · Professional Development · Web 2.0 · learning

One Ning To Rule Them All?

August 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments

I just posted a reply to a forum discussion about possible Skypecasts about using Ning. What was funny about this is that I posted a reply regarding the possibilty of using Steve Hargadon’s idea for the EduBloggerWorld work. Needless to say, I think I sort of confused Steve. (Steve, I’m not an idiot, [...]

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Tags: Blogging · EduBloggerWorld · Professional Development · edublog · education

What’s Above Your Head?

August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

If you are a Google Earth user and you haven’t updated lately, you might want to soon. Google released it’s latest upgrade, Google Earth 4.2 [get it here] with a significant feature, a Sky view. Here is a video I found on YouTube that features Sally Ride, the first American woman astronaut, being [...]

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Tags: Applications · Podcasts

Window to this EduBlogger’s World

August 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Here is my post for the EduBloggerWorld Meet Up.
Where do you blog?
At home mostly, my work time is mainly made up of serving our students, teachers, and administrators, but is the source of many of my blog posts. I also blog from conferences and workshops and, although rarely, a meeting worthy of being blogged. [...]

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Tags: Blogging · EduBloggerWorld · Web 2.0

Comic Goodness

August 20th, 2007 · No Comments

 
Who needs the Sunday funny papers anymore? Not quite sure where this fits in, but I like it anyways. No offense to those “old folks” out there, in some eyes we are all old folks. Enjoy. Warning: Some XKCD webcomics are NSFW – consider yourself warned.
 

www.xkcd.com – A webcomic [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Miscellaneous · Web 2.0

Simply PocketCasting

March 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Thanks to Ian Marsden for his post Pocketcasting??? which informed me of the AudioBay application and Tony Vincent's post on the Learning in Hand forums whom Ian read it from. Gotta love the breadcrumb trails! Ian calls this Pocketcasting I believe because you are not using an iPod to do record (let's face [...]

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Tags: Handhelds · Podcasts · Windows Mobile