I’ve been giving technology presentations for about five years now, and most of them have been successful. Not today’s, though. This is a quick self-inflicted debriefing.
1 The main problem was that the presentation was way too full. I wanted to focus on theory. I wanted to discuss the ways in which [...]

My “working thesis” for an upcoming presentation (the notes are still in process as of this post):
Online writing tools that allow for asynchronous and/or collaborative writing can help improve the fluency and reflection of student writers in all disciplines provided the instructors facilitating the use of these tools have a clear and practical understanding of [...]

School starts in Prince William County next week. Even though I’m not teaching at Woodbridge High this year, I’ll still be helping my former colleagues with their online needs, which means I’ve been spending time thinking about what the students will need this year in their courses and how best to meet those needs. [...]

From Boing Boing:
These student presentations are better than anything I’ve seen from “real” news agencies and could serve as a model for the future of interactive/online journalism.
Boing Boing: Students produce the future of newsgathering
Interesting stuff from students at the college level. Could serve as great models for secondary students (or younger?), and provide some [...]

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Ziad “Zee” Muhmood, one of the minds behind the still-in-development TTeach site. He called from his London base and we spoke for nearly an hour about both the technology and the vision behind TTeach (which he pronounced as just “teach”). For anyone curious, I thought [...]

A comment on an earlier post asking if anyone had information about tteach led me to Peter Rock’s blog entry. There, he says of tteach:
Paying teachers through advertising revenue is unwise pedagogy. The site says that “tteach is essentially School 2.0″. Apparently, School 2.0 is really about placing profit over students. gnuosphere: School 2.0 [...]

This Wednesday (Feb. 28th, 2007), I’ll be talking with Paul Allison and others on TeachersTeachingTeachers.org about various CMS (Community Management System) solutions for schools. Specifically, I’ll be talking about Joomla.
I’ve written some notes on Joomla before, and have been talking to a few teachers in other districts about its potential for the classroom. [...]

About a month ago, I wrote about introducing the idea of mobile alerts into my classroom. Today, Connee left a comment on that post, along with some good ideas for using the two services I mentioned, which reminded me to post an update.
After that post, I set up a survey on the class website [...]

Have you seen tteach yet? I stumbled-upon it. Here’s what they say about themselves:
tteach is essentially …School 2.0. Where the world educates each other and where you learn what you want to learn. We’re here every step of the way…to make it fun, simple, interactive and as much yours as it is ours. [...]

Yesterday, Miguel Guhlin wrote a post about Bloglines’ new “Image Wall.” His main contention is that the images aren’t filtered, and so anyone using the service may be exposed to offensive material. (Bloglines does require you to accept a disclaimer before passing you on to the Image Wall.)
Because of the Image Wall, Miguel [...]