Terry Freedman, an Independent Educational Technology Consultant just released a great free book with examples of Web 2.0 used in the classroom. Terry was kind enough to include my class weekly blog in his list of examples (mine is number 41) and I am honored to be mentioned.
Please check it out for some good examples [...]
My first look at “twitter” happened back in the fall of this year and I was shocked that anybody would use something like this. It looked useless! Why in the heck would somebody want to know what other people are doing right now, what they are eating, or what the weather was like somewhere else [...]
All I can say is wow. I have had a really exciting week learning about new free technologies that are available.
The first one that I experienced earlier this week was ustream.tv. Ustream is a very simple site that allows anyone with a web cam or other digital video device to stream video online. Set up [...]
I found the following example or the use of technology against more traditional tools at Edutechie.com and it makes a lot of sense.
Let’s have a little competition at school and get ready for the
future. I will use a laptop and you will use paper and pencil. Are you
ready…?
I will access up-to-date information - you [...]
