Thanks to Will Richardson
Before getting into this blog proper, I must say thanks to Will Richardson. I stumbled upon his blog some time in 2005 and started to follow it religiously. At that stage, I didn’t know how to use RSS,...
View ArticleScreenCasts
I just listened to and watched Ewan McIntosh‘s screencast on Web 2.0 technology. His ideas are great and it is something I’ll have to re-watch. His discussion on blogs and podcasts is quite...
View Articlek – 12 Online Conference “Unleasing the Potential”
www.k12onlineconference.org Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006″ convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and...
View ArticlepodOmatic = podmail
With thanks to Paul Harrington and Judy O’Connell, I have just stumbled on podOmatic. This site is similar to Odeo (but in my opinion, it is “safer” – read the end comment) and allows users to create...
View ArticleHow to Become a Millionaire!! OR Teaching students how to podcast
If I were to teach students how to podcast, I would give them meaningful assignments and get them to create from the start. As an IT teacher, it is my job to teach the students about the technology at...
View ArticleThe Open Classroom
I’ve organized an afternoon “chat” called “The Open Classroom” for some of our staff next week as part of our AGQTP/AISV New Technologies program. I call it a “chat” as it isn’t PD, nor is it a...
View Article“The Open Clasroom” Presentation
Yesterday afternoon, we had our presentation on blogs and what they are. What a success!! Only 20 or so staff attended the session out of 150 teachers at our school (although only 35 were invited, so...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us and Assessment
This has been out there for some time now, but if you haven’t seen it, you must see a video called: Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us. It was posted by Professor Mike Wesch....
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