This is an article by Audrey Watters for Edutopia. It is a great overview & guide for teachers on the fence about using wikis with their students. Why Wikis Still Matter | Edutopia Wiki is a Hawai’ian word meaning “fast” or “quick.” As a technology platform, Ward Cunningham installed the very first wiki on the [...]
Just want to let you know that I appreciate being allowed to talk at your staff meeting. And again, if you think I can help out with tech integration in your classroom don’t hesitate to email me. We’ll always have YouWho. Here’s a link to my Diigo account, specifically the tag Education. That long list [...]
Tags:Blogging·Educational Technology·Professional Development
Even on vacation I’m able to keep up with what some of the leading tech educators are thinking and doing – via Twitter. The video above, from the always great CommonCraft, is a great explanation of a difficult topic. (And if you follow back to ‘Twitter in Plain English’ on the CommonCraft site you’ll see [...]
Tags:commoncraft·twitter
I was in a meeting today (IIC! – get it?) and Principal Swanson said he had a link that he would email all of us. I saw my chance & I took it. You see, John has blog – but John doesn’t have a Delicious.com account. I said (piped in, really) that if John had [...]
Just a quick note thinking back to my first meeting with the North Cook Tech Directors on Friday. A couple of colleagues will not answer tech questions, even from central admin or principals, that can be solved using a web search (Google) or various kinds of web tools (forums, blogs, Twitter?). I’m new here and [...]
Tags:Community
I’m going to be talking today about blogging in education to the CCSD 62 Instructional Services team. I thought I would write a new post to them, then low & behold I see that one of my current favorite bloggers, Jeff Utecht, just wrote about this same topic! Jeff is the Technology Specialist for the [...]
At Extended Council today we talked about the problem of communication within the district. We can solve a lot of these problems if we can cultivate a vibrant blogging community in CCSD 62. A large communication problem seems to exist with the amount of district wide email is sent, requiring teachers, administrators and other staff [...]
Tags:Communication
I just talked to the CCSD principals today about blogs, and since nobody kicked me out of the meeting I’m feeling pretty good. Since we will be working together to become comfortable with this I thought I’d post CommonCraft’s Blogs in Plain English video here. CommonCraft have great intructional videos explaining these modern web technologies, [...]
Tags:Blogging·Leadership
This post is directed to CCSD 62 LMC Specialists & Assistants. I am still learning the ins & outs of the district, so I didn’t realize the number of building meetings Monday. At first it seemed like a good time for us all to meet, for me to get to know you, but now it [...]
Youtube can be a great resource. It can also be a scary place to direct students. But a lot of people don’t know that you can post Youtube videos and disallow the direct connection to Youtube. Below I’ve posted one of my favorite videos. When posting it, instead of grabbing the embed code right off [...]
