NECC 2006 Attendees | At a Glance – Blogging and Podcasting

NECC's Blogging and Podcasting page is up and running…there are 22 bloggers/podcasters listed right now including ones from England, Bangladesh, Guam, and Canada. I'm not sure how that number will change as thing progress…I'm sure there are bloggers out there who will be at the conference who didn't request that they be listed on NECC's [...]

More Filtering Follies

Ok, I wasn’t going to talk about this, but it’s been driving me crazy all day. And since it’s Friday, blogging about this saves me from doing other, more tedious stuff. So…
To back up a bit, I had read this Battling Censorship entry as well as others that have passed through my Bloglines [...]

Connecting and Collaborating Conference May 5

In the Weekly Web Wonders email I've sent out numerous links and resources regarding new online tools such as wikis and blogs as well as collaborative sites like Furl, Writely, and del.icio.us. These new tools can be extremely useful to teachers, but I know many of you are pressed for time and can't fully [...]

It’s not the Technology, but why are we still talking about it?

So my little post (Blogs won’t be here forever) from last week was mentioned by a couple of edubloggers…Will Richardson and Dan Mitchell. This intro sentence to Dan’s Teachnology Blog post (now I see he was really looking at Will’s post) initially struck me:
I know it seems self-evident to many of us, but this [...]

Connecting & Collaborating Conference

Save the date…on May 5 Ottawa Area Intermediate School District is hosting the first annual Connecting & Collaborating Conference. This going to be a great day for teachers and administrators who want to take a closer look at the use of so-called Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. And it’s not simply a [...]

Blogs won’t be here forever

Something from Will Richardson’s presentation last week at the MACUL conference is worth taking a closer look at.
He stated that blogs might go away, but the idea behind blogs will not.   What is the “idea behind blogs?”  It’s the same idea that proponents of more student writing have said before…authentic audiences motivate students to write.  [...]

The Future of Blogs

Will Richardson is beginning his third of four sessions today…he’s going to be pooped out today! I just received his book on Tuesday…it looks good so I’m anxious to take a closer look at it.
Handouts to the presentation at http://webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com. The password (if you want to edit) is rww.
There are almost 14 million [...]

The Tech Savvy Educator

Ben Rimes, a teacher at Countryside Charter Academy, is presenting this morning. I never knew he was so close, but that’s a kind of cool thing with online communities…you never know where people are. Lots of people in this somewhat strange room…I’d say about 50.
Ben runs The Tech Savvy Educator, a blog which [...]

What the Elgg?

Live blogging at MACUL:Presenter: Jeff Flynn from Ann ArborTitle: Online Portfolios etc.
Elgg? What is Elgg?
Jeff Flynn is talking about some of the collaborative tools he uses…Skype, Moodle, MediaWiki, and now Elgg.
Elgg is an open-source project…what does it do? Learning communities…blogs. I need to go in and take a closer look at [...]

Gaggle is Now Blogging

Many of you are probably familiar with Gaggle…they provide filtered email for students and teachers. Well, they now are offering a blogging tool to their service. I couldn’t get in to take a look into how they’re doing things without an account, but it’s nice to have another choice to get students to [...]