The good news: My wife is due to give birth to a bouncing baby girl in Doylestown, PA between Feb. 16-19, 2008. The other good news: I was one of three teachers at my school invited to present at the New Jersey Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development. The four-hour…
Category: Web 2.0
Survey: Web 2.0 Classroom Projects
Terry Freedman is conducting a survey of teachers who are currently implementing “Web 2.0” projects in their classes: wikis, blogs, podcasts, social networking, etc. (I contributed the wiki my sophomores just started building). If you’re interested in taking the survey, here’s the link.
Hi-Tech Lo-Fi
I posted last week about my attempts to mashup a slide show with sound at Slideshare.net. I took an Impress show on the life of Thomas a’ Becket I created about a year and a half ago and recorded some narration, simply to see how the service works. The results…
Promoting Twitteracy in the Classroom
I can’t resist the urge to leap headlong into an awful portmanteau, but Dr. Yvonne Andres could when she posted about TwitterLit.com back in May. From her article: Realizing that the opening sentences of books are often an intriguing attention getters, twice a day, TwitterLit creator Debra Hamel, posts the…
A little recognition goes a long way…
My first official slidecast is not only up and running, it was selected as Slideshare.net’s Slidecast of the Day. You can check out my take on the life of Thomas a’ Becket right from the front page of Slideshare.net (I’ll post it here after it leaves the front page). Word…