Web 2.0

The Best Reason for Educators to Use Facebook

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I have long been a proponent of using Facebook in education. Not everyone shares my view. Privacy issues, age requirements, educational relevance and inappropriate friending are issues brought up by those against educators using Facebook. Today, I am not going to speak to those issues. It’s been done over and over again. Instead, I’ll point [...]

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68 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest March 6, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—a list of edtech resources from the past week that you just may have missed. This week I have added an Education section as the reform/budget movement has taken an ugly turn.  In addition, this was the week of the iPad 2 announcement and you can find all [...]

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Welcome TCEA 2011 Participants–How to Navigate This Site

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TCEA 2011 is in full swing and I would like to thank those of you who were in the audience for “Discovering the Hidden Potential of Your Website.” Kelly Kronfeld, Gigi Wheeler and I were very excited to see a line form outside our classroom before the presentation.  You never know how many people will [...]

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51 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest, Jan 16 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—a list of 51 EdTech resources from the previous week that may have been missed. I don’t include any of my posts as they are easy to find under “Recent” and “Top Posts” on the right sidebar. Enjoy! NewsFlash:  On Monday, January 17, 2011, Mark Fox (@theteachershub) is [...]

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The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators

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Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers has just released a tremendous resource for educators called “The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators.” It is an 83 page book co-written by 10 prominent educators: George Couros, Patrick Larkin, Kelly Tenkely, Adam Bellow, Silvia Tolisano, Steven Anderson, Cory Plough, Beth Still, Larry Ferlazzo, Lee Kolbert, and Richard Byrne. Filled with great information, there are two [...]

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Psykotube–A Whole New Way to View YouTube Videos!

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Are you tired of YouTube’s less than creative interface? If so, check out Psykotube–a whole new and exciting way to watch YouTube videos. Psykotube has a great-looking site that upon first glance gives you NO videos at all! Take a look: But, start typing something, in this case “Web 2.0″ into the search box, it replicates [...]

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An Office Suite Just for Kids!

November 11, 2010

Office apps don’t bring the wow factor that many of the new Web 2.0 apps possess.  However, when we talk about authentic learning, it doesn’t get much more authentic than word processing, drawing, presentations and spreadsheets!  So, what suite do you use with your students?  Most likely, it is a version of Microsoft’s Office suite. [...]

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Treasure Chest-Superman, Oprah, Khan, Games, Converters, Photo & Video Editing, Teacher Tools, Great Videos-& So Much More!

September 26, 2010

It’s a big week for this week’s edition of  Treasure Chest-the best resources I’ve looked at over the past week on the web.  We’ve got Superman, Oprah, Teacher Tools, Ipad, Google, Khan Academy, Games, Converters, Digital Storytelling, Science Experiments, Photo Editing, Flip Cameras and Video Editing–just to name a few. I hope you are able [...]

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Is This Your School?

August 29, 2010

Schools need to update their hardware in the worst way.  Not only does old hardware not perform adequately for today’s software (and that includes Web 2.0 apps), it sends a very poor message to the kids:  Our school is not serious about technology! Related articles by Zemanta New Laptop Advice Sought – Windows 7? 64 [...]

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Treasure Chest–iPads, History, Toddlers, Google & More–July 3, 2010

July 3, 2010

Treasure Chests are a list of resources I have found in the past few days that may be of interest to educators.  As always, I could not do this without the help of my great PLN! Pieces of Gold PhotoFunia PhotoFunia is an image site that allows advanced PhotoShop type edits within seconds.  Upload your [...]

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A New Way to Lecture

July 1, 2010

Using Web 2.0 to Create Interactive Lecture with Your Students By Michael Zimmer Thanks to @kakronfeld for this resource tip!  A very good “book” bringing together Web 2.0 tools in order to change how we “lecture” in our classrooms.  The author also includes a thorough description of each application and how it could be used [...]

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Treasure Chest – Twitter, Ken Robinson & More – May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010

Highlights Sir Ken Robinson:  Bring on the Learning Revolution Tools for the 21st Century Teacher Social Learning: An Explanation Using Twitter Enjoy!

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Who Said Newspapers are Dead! Twitter & The Semantic Web (Web 3.0)

May 12, 2010

Web 3.0 -The Semantic Web has started to gather steam lately.  What is it?  Is it already here?  Is it even possible?  The answer to these questions are explored and answered in the following two videos that explain Web 3.0 in terms that make tech make sense!  Take some time to take a look at [...]

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