Over the years that I’ve been using social media and 2.0 technologies in my classroom, I’ve tried plenty of different services. When accounts are free, it is easy to try things out. Of course, what ends up happening is that plenty of these get abandoned. A service didn’t do what you thought it would, the service dies, or the you simply end up not using the tool in your classroom. Whatever the reason, we’ve all created plenty of online...
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The tools I’ve been using in my classroom have been mostly static for several years now. While this might seem like an eternity in internet time, we’ve been successful with our model. Blogs, wikis, google docs and open internet service as cornerstones. Many others...
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I put the cart before the horse today. While I’ve constantly preached and believed in the fact that learning need and pedagogy come before selecting tools – I set up a new website today for my classroom and I’m not sure how it will...
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Quote of the day from Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus: “The hothouse environment of a collaborative circle can make the ideas and achievements of the participants develop faster than if the participants were were all pursuing individual goals without sharing.” I love the idea of...
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- My father and father – in – law are both the type of men that could build a passable ark with a bunch of toothpicks and twine. While I have no trouble doing things around my house (one of the things you simply...
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