Podcasts: About Education & Technology

Now we know what Podcasts are (see What is Podcasting?). Are there any decent podcasts about using technology in education? Funny you should ask 🙂 Worldbridges is a collection of people from all over the world who regularly meet online and discuss various topics related to education and technology. Perhaps the most cohesive of their efforts is the Ed Tech Talk show. They also have … Continue reading Podcasts: About Education & Technology

Found It

All right. I found it. I’m not conceding my earlier point. I think not being able to search audio and video files for something someone said instead of something someone wrote is going to become a bigger problem as we continue to explore using these media online. The audio I was looking for, incidently, was from Marc Prensky’s keynote speech at the Christa McAuliffe Technology … Continue reading Found It

Web 2.What?

I’m preparing a presentation for a staff development day coming up in March. One of the things the presentation includes is a series of slides with short definitions of buzzwords. Blog. Wiki. Podcast. Phishing. Terabyte. No problems. Web 2.0? That’s a little tougher. I quickly found that I needed two slides. Then, maybe, half a dozen. Then, perhaps, an entire presentation. The word gets thrown … Continue reading Web 2.What?

Moodle-ing Around

It’s time to start teaching online. The universities have been using online learning tools for quite a while now. Community schools are using online tools to provide an alternative to public education. Students are using online communication tools to keep in touch with their friends. The time has come to take advantage of these tools. Moodle is an open source course management system for online … Continue reading Moodle-ing Around

How Optional is Technology?

Recently, Ryan Collins started a discussion about teachers wanting to opt-out of technology use in the classroom. He posed the following question to Ohio’s technology coordinators: What does your district do with teachers who want to "opt out" of technology?  Since we are pushing technology integration, one of the things on my plate this month is to have this discussion with my superintendent and  assistant … Continue reading How Optional is Technology?

Quite Writely

Smart people are starting to rearrange the puzzle pieces a little bit. Some of the technologies that have been around for a while are now being combined and interconnected in new and interesting ways, and it’s changing how we use the Internet. Consider Ajax, for example. It’s basically a combination of Javascript and XML, two technologies that have been around for a decade or so. … Continue reading Quite Writely