The two best sessions for me at Edubloggercon today at ISTE2010 ended up talking about Networks and teaching how to use networks with students. For lack of a better term we called it “Networked Literacy” I first started thinking about this back in August after reading Writing in the 21st Century by Kathleen Yancey (worth [...]
Picnik.com launches back to school ideas
A friend of mine who now works for Picnik (or should I say Google seeing that Picnik was recently purchased by them), the online photo editing website passed along these little suggestions this week. New for Back to School We just launched some handy tools that make it easy to create photo-personalized blog headers, newsletters, [...]
Using Search Stories to Teach Search Skills
Last year one of the best ads released during the SuperBowl was this simple ad by Google Shortly after the release of this video Google asked you to make your own search stories. Simply go to http://www.youtube.com/searchstories and start creating your story. What a great way to teach students search skills. Give students and start [...]
A Shopper for All Seasons
During my fifteen years of teaching, I often used food analogies in my teaching. Eating is something we all understand and hopefully enjoy. Locating and eating the ‘right foods’ is something we can all aspire. While searching for some new recipes this summer, I spent time at two sites: Epicurious and Eattheseasons. Used together, [...]
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21st Century Themes
Are Wikis Dying?
ISTE 2010 Conference here in Denver is starting off on a positive note for me. Today was the EduBloggerCon, and as usual we had some great discussions around the future of tools and learning. I facilitated one of the first sessions of the day titled “Are Wikis Dying?” It’s a question I’ve been wrestling with [...]
Core Education
2,669 Downloads of Reach!
Thank you for helping to support the launch of my first book Reach. Here are the final numbers of the downloads in case you were wondering. This Blog: 2,151 U Tech Tips Blog: 77 Twitter: 403 LinkedIn: 1 Facebook: 37 Completely blew away any expectations I had on giving away the book. I appreciate your [...]
Digital Literacy
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The free download period has now ended. You can purchase a copy of the book by clicking on the link below. Thanks for your support!
21st Century Themes
Gadgets, the Brain and Families
As educators, we blog about best practices in using technology and information for learning. We discuss the the lives of our students outside of school in the ways they are connected and seemingly always “On” when it comes to their social networks. The New York Times just published an article entitled “Hooked on Gadgets, and [...]
21st Century Themes
Paint The World With Light
Paint the World With Light is the first digital media challenge from The Student Creative, a book of student light paintings from around the world. The goal of this project was to have students use long exposure photography to show the unique character of their own communities.
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Mining Twitter for Content
Take 14 minutes out of your day today or tomorrow and watch this video: Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo. Is it sad that this excites me? I love Tim Berners-Lee’s last statement: “If we end up building all the things I can imagine, we’ve failed.” This coming from the “father of the World [...]
