Over the past three semesters, my education undergraduate students have been working with Panraven, a compelling and interesting web site that allows users to create, publish, and even print online storybooks. We have used Panraven to create sense-of-place projects with an eye toward using Panraven as a K-12 classroom tool. My students’ ...

Hi Everybody!Just to introduce myself:  I have been teaching since 1987, previously in South Africa, but since 2006 here in New Zealand. I am married, with 4 busy teenage children, all still in High School.  I love teaching, always have, and am enjoying it now more than ever before.  I am fortunate to have a great class, am at a ...

There is a good article about accessibility of virtual online worlds, such as Second Life, in AFB's March AccessWorld. (Lots of good articles in the March edition... be sure to check out the others too!) The article is titled Exploring Methods of Accessing Virtual Worlds. You can read it online at ...

As an educator, I find myself posting content on a variety of online sources. In addition to semi-regular blogging, I manage several wikis, maintain a faculty home page, store and publish presentations on Google Docs, and I (somewhat reluctantly) use Blackboard for my ed tech classes. Many of those sources employ the same content. For [...]

American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)'s March AccessWorld has an article discussing Web 2.0 from an accessibility perspective. The article is titled Untangling the Web - Surfing into the Future: An Introduction to Web 2.0 and is written by Stephanie Bassler. You can find the article at http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw090204 Any ...

As a member of Library 2.0 on Ning, I recently received the following email from mail@library20.ning.com: Steve Hargadon is the creator of a social network for educators called Classroom 2.0 (www.classroom20.com), winner of the 2008 Edublog awards for educational use of a social networking site, and home to nearly 5,000 educators interested in ...

As the time for promising to improve one’s life approaches, it’s time to offer up websites that can help teachers to meet their New Year’s Resolutions (even the ones they didn’t know they had). Let’s start with the goal of Learning in 2008. Few educators would argue that they know everything that they need to [...]

What began as appreciation for his Flickr tools (which, by the way, are useless to me now that Flickr is blocked by my school district’s web filters), has shifted to his personal blog about his family. John Watson has so many projects that listing them all here would do them a disservice. But, I highly [...]

Wired for FaceBook? As my university students and I delve more into the phenomenon of social networking, I find myself looking for research that addresses the reasons that so many folks find social networking so compelling. Many of my students have an almost palpable fear of being un-connected to their network of friends, be that realized [...]

Today’s post is a collection of tools and resources that have come my way over the past few days. My Friend Flickr This excellent article from Edutopia outlines a variety of student-safe uses of Flickr, the online photo sharing site. Amy Standen (author) does an excellent job of pointing out the potential pitfalls of turning students loose ...