Flocking

Here’s another article, this one from USA Today (sorry about that), summarizing the latest thinking on social networking and the “contagion” idea (see previous post on social networking and contagion).  This article pulls together a few threads from different places…I like the idea put forth of flocking or schooling behavior as an analogy for human [...]

Chris Lehmann FCC Talk

Here’s a UStream video of a wonderful presentation from Chris Lehmann, Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA. He gave a talk at the FCC National Broadband Planning Workshop yesterday (8.20.09) in Washington, DC. Here’s his blog entry about the talk (which includes a draft of his notes). Inspiring. [...]

Digital Media Student Projects

I’m always looking for good student media project examples from clever teachers and, lucky me, I hit the jackpot this week when I met Larry Schmidt.  Larry is a high school English teacher in Minnesota who teaches online courses for EdVisions High School.  EdVisions sounds like a pretty interesting idea….to quote their web site, it’s [...]

Vlogging

You may have already started a blog but here’s another idea to consider – a vlog.  As you can guess from the squished-together way these new technology terms are formed, a “vlog” is a “video blog”.  That is, a form of blogging in which the medium is video.
As a teacher, you might set up a [...]

Twittering Away

I think I’m finally beginning to understand Twitter.  It’s taken me over a year….I admit, I’m a slow learner.  But, confound it, when I first started using it, I just didn’t get why this application would be necessary.  Why would I want to hear that “Kadee” is “finally going to bed at midnight.”  or that [...]

What Does This Have to Do with Teaching?

I recently sat in on a departmental staff meeting at a high school.  I was there to talk with the assembled group of teachers about the use of the web in their teaching and how best to prepare themselves, in order to more effectively use web 2.0 technologies and social networking with their students. At [...]

TimeTube

Here’s a great example of a useful mash-up.  It’s called Time Tube. Think of it as YouTube meets a timeline.  You enter a topic (say, “Obama”) and up will come all the YouTube videos on that topic, arranged in a timeline.  You can drag your way through the timeline, clicking on the thumbnails for individual [...]

The World is Watching

The American election is over.  Democracy did its job and we have a new President.  And a new congress. There are so many elements that made this election momentous, but what strikes me most profoundly was the globalness of it all.  The world was most definitely watching and, for the first time in eight years, [...]

CCK08: Thought on Grainne Conole’s Mapping Model

 
I just returned from the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) conference in Memphis, TN where I attended many excellent sessions and gave one workshop myself on applying technology to biology teaching.  I had a great group of 60 (mostly) secondary school teachers who were enthusiastically interested in applying web 2.0 tools to their teaching. [...]

CCK08: Qualities of Connected People

   

Girl Mailing a Letter
Originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution
After reading Jenny Mackness’s blog entry about her 82-year old mother (loved it), I started thinking more about what human qualities help to insure our connectedness. And are these qualitie that can be nurtured, developed, enhanced? Surely, indentifying the qualities of well-connected people would be step [...]