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Chrome for Mac User Friendly, Minimalistic
It’s been nearly 16 months since Google launched its Web browser Chrome by sending a 36-page comic to bloggers and developers in September 2009. However, as a Mac user, last week was my first chance to take Google Chrome for a test drive.
Although Google Chrome for Mac is still in beta, I had no trouble [...]
Why the Read/Write Web is Essential in Schools
In his book, RSS for Educators: Blogs, Newsfeeds, Podcasts, and Wikis in the Classroom, John G. Hendron discusses the importance of using the Read/Write Web, or Web 2.0, in education. He says:
What if a school’s success hinged on its ability to prepare students for an evolving, global society that demanded openness, peering, sharing, and acting [...]
Ponchos, Pisco Sours and Panpipes but no broadband or wireless
As teachers at the so called ‘chalk face’ or these days the ‘smart board’ we continually strive to prepare our students with the knowledge, skills, attributes and life experiences that will make them effective life-long learners in the 21st century. But what if you have no technology as such, no wireless or broadband, what if [...]
Crowdsourcing or Loudsourcing?
Applause to my friends at ISTE for having the gumption to create a massive experiment in crowdsourcing with their ISTE 2010 keynote crowdsourcing forum. As I’ve put in my own suggestions and thoughts and sat back to watch the forum evolve since it was posted, a few things about crowds have come to mind as [...]
The Changing Nature of Professional Development
This post is cross-posted here.
I love my new job for many reasons.
One of the cool things that I have seen in the few months of my new role is how social tools have the potential to cause an amazing change in the nature of how Professional Development is accessed and delivered. And the really [...]
Why Are We Still Calling it “Social Media”?
“In this networked century, where access to technology is increasing exponentially, almost everybody is reachable. But more importantly, almost everybody has the ability to connect,” says Jared Cohen in a HuffingtonPost article. “This new ability to connect is leveling the playing field and breaking down previous age, gender, socioeconomic, and circumstantial barriers to who can [...]
Webinars & Awards, Oh My! Check Out What’s New:
Free Webinar on Girls in Computing Tuesday, October 20
Join ISTE’s Special Interest Group for Computing Teachers (SICCT) and the National Coalition for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) for a free webinar on the issues and opportunities related to girls and computing. You’ll also learn more about how to make the most [...]
The Fear of Change – it’s Nothing New
I recently read an interview with Dennis Baron, author of A Better Pencil. His new book takes a look at people’s fear of computers having a negative impact on various aspects of human interaction, including common complaints that instant messaging (IM) is ruining the English language and that Facebook is causing us to be anti-social. [...]
ISTE 2010 Conference Proposals Due October 7!
Do you have a proposal for ISTE10? If so, make sure to submit it by October 7th at midnight!
Hundreds of educators will be presenting their ed tech strategies and best practices in Denver for the ISTE 2010 conference in June. If you want to be one of them, visit the Call for [...]
Video Games & Learning: Games May Not be the Enemy
The familiar warning the boomers grew up with is still being ignored by generation Y and Zers: “X will rot your brain!” It’s a knee-jerk statement chided by parents and inflicted unto kids. “Television” evolved into “Video Games” like Squirtle evolves to Wartortle.
This is where I, and many others, disagree with these concerned parents. The [...]
