Good Blog News
Nice article from a few days ago in The Seattle Times: Living: Teachers are reaching out to students with a new class of blogs“Never in 25 years of teaching have I seen a more powerful motivator for writing than blogs,†[Mark] Ahlness said. “And that’s because of the audience. Writing is not just […]
Secondcast #17: Field Trip
The Secondcasters take a field trip to Arcadia in episodes 17 and 18 to play all of the games in the 2006 developer contest.Download SecondCast Episode 17
Secondcast #21: Wall of Shame
The casters interview real life Barry Joseph, Director of the […]
Links for Sunday, October 15, 2006
Search Status: A Search Extension for Firefox and Mozilla - “SearchStatus is a toolbar extension for Firefox and Mozilla that allows you to see how any and every website in the world is performing. Designed for the highly specialised needs of search engine marketers, this toolbar provides extensive search-related information […]
Reading and Writing with RSS
Via Blogs for Learning, a new site from Michigan State, comes this pretty interesting article “The Technology of Reading and Writing in the Digital Space: Why RSS is crucial for a Blogging Classroom†by David Parry from the University of Albany. It has a higher ed slant, but is very relevant […]
Teaching With the Read/Write Web?or Not
From the “E-Mailed Stories that We Liked Dept.†(blogged with Andy Losik’s permission:)Today in my elementary Infotech classes, I realized the horror of life withoutonline resources that are tabbed as being part of “social networkingâ€.Inadvertedly our school district’s filter profile had “Web Logs/Personal webpages†added to it this morning, meaning […]
In the News: Rethinking Schools, Teaching MySpace
First, for your consideration, a school in Australia that has a different view on the world of learning and how it should look and operate.The traditional classroom concept will disappear, replaced by “learning spacesâ€. The school will be referred to as a “learning community†and teachers will be known […]