Well, in the last two days I have signed up to not one, not two but three new “Web 2.0 tools”. I was intrigued by Posterous and it’s incredible ease of use. One can perform many tasks simply via email ~ a tool that many are quite adept at using already. Why not use Posterous to set up a blog? I signed up. Three bloggers have highlighted Posterous during the last 24 hours, namely Larry Ferlazzo, Michelle Martin and Silvia Tolisano. It is certainly an interesting tool and I shall be sharing it with my colleagues this Thursday.
Earlier this evening I received an email invite from Clay Burell to join Plurk and I did. It looks neat. I will give it a go. I had read about it on Read~Write Web some time back and it has popped up in a few posts and tweets as a possible alternative to the long suffering Twitter.
Then, since I was seemingly in a drunken web 2.0 haze I signed up for Diigo despite my digs here, here and here (scroll down) I will have to thoroughly explore Diigo in order to derive the greatest benefit from this tool. Well, it has been 3 months since the big Diigo whirlwind of last March so I here I am all signed up and I even joined a few groups.
But, I signed up for Posterous within 24 hours of its discovery and for Plurk the second I read Clay’s invite. I did not allow time to frame my decision. I jumped straight in. Web 2.0 overdose. Bless me father for I have sinned.
How did I create this post? My wife took my photograph using a small Casio digital camera. I uploaded the image to my Mac using a USB 2.0 card reader. I imported the image into Comic Life and added the word balloons, etc. I exported the Comic as a jpeg image and then resized it in Adobe Photoshop Elements and exported it using the Save For Web option which allows you to fine tune file size and quality. I used CyberDuck to upload the image plus the various logos that I had screen captured via SharpShooter,
Shao Ping, Lucia and I drove across to the Nan Tien Temple this afternoon. Shao Ping will be conducting some Mandarin lessons at the temple commencing July. We checked out the projection facilities.
We then took Lucia for a tour around the temple. We have been there many times. It is the largest Buddhist temple in the southern hemisphere. I have photographed the temple before and the images are included in this gallery. The weather was brilliant today. Deep blue sky airbrushed with wondrous cirrus clouds.
How did I create this post? The photographs were taken with a Nikon D-70, uploaded to the MacBook with USB 2.0 card reader and processed with Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0. I resized each image to a width of 400 pixels and a resolution of 72dpi. I adjusted the levels for some of the images to highlight the light and shade. Sometimes digital images seem a little ‘flat’ and playing with the levels can alleviate that lack of ‘depth’. These processes are debscribed in a guide, step by step. Available in pdf format. Download the images referred to in the guide from this page.
Watershed ~ a critical point that marks a division or a change of course; a turning point; a period of time that marks a turning point in a course of action.
Well, I think that we are in the midst of a turning point or a change of course in terms of education so I have decided to give my blog a new name ~ Watershed.
I have been pondering this name change for a while.
The term watershed has been a part of my vocabulary since I read The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler about 30 years ago. In this seminal tome Koestler gives an account of mankind’s changing view of the universe and cosmology. He applied the term watershed to that period of the scientific revolution when Kepler and Galileo forever changed our view of the universe.
This is an aboriginal interpretation of Zorba The Greek. This performance always lifts my spirits. I am always happy to see anyone enjoying life and not taking themsleves too seriously. As the description on the YouTube page explains…
Frank Djirrimbilpilwuy from Milingimbi has been in the Indigenous Media Industry for many years and has been a long-standing member and supporter of the Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association, TEABBA Radio. He has worked Independently in Music and Film for many years also.As the man behind the camera and release of the video, Frank is also representing the dance group who call themselves “The Chooky Dancers”.
Frank has said that he filmed the footage at this years Ramingining Festival on the 30th September 2007 and knew it would be “something special” as soon as he saw the boys rehearsing. “The crowd went wild as you can see in the video, and the classic song Zorba the Greek has now become a hit overnight in the communities and now it seems, everywhere else too.”
During the last few weeks a significant number of blog posts and ‘tweets’ on Twitter have been along these lines:
“Just a week to go before I am off to the NECC”
“Five days to go and I will be at the NECC”
“NECC next week!”
“NECC here I come!”
“Packing my bags for the NECC!”
“So excited about going to NECC!”
“At last, just about to hop on a plane for the NECC”
“Sitting in an airport lounge… NECC is my next stop”
The education networks are inundated with the term NECC (just like this blog post). Thinking about it, the fact that the term is prevalent in so many posts would make searching for relevant data regarding the NECC a little more challenging.
Something else crossed my mind as well. The NECC has been around for nearly thirty years now and I wonder if the demographics of the attendees has altered during the previous three decades. In particular, has the advent of the read~write web (aka Web 2.0) had an impact on the demographics at the conference?
Will there be hard core programming types mingling with newbie, web 2.0 entranced teachers? Will the educators that have their roots in command line interfaces cope with the Twitterers in their midst? What will the mix be I wonder?
This afternoon my colleague, Wayne, and I were chatting in the car on the way home. Wayne mentioned that he had read that if we look far enough into the universe we should eventually be able to see the back of our head as the universe folds back on itself, apparently. I mentioned I would like to be around if instantenous interstellar travel was ever invented. A few of the places I would like to visit are depicted below.
Of course, things would look a little different given that the light visible in these photographs may have taken hundreds or thousands of light years to reach Earth.
Thinking about the universe reminded me of the relative insignifcance of the planet Earth. Then the thought crossed my mind that its most civilised inhabitants are quite strange. The human race has missed the point. If we were truly an intelligent species would we be working five or more days a week for most of our lives? Would an intelligent species establish a society that is directly contributing to the demise of its planet via climate degradation? Would an intelligent species war with itself?
Then, thinking about global warming, mass extinctions of plant and animal species, peak oil, melting ice-caps and so on I wonder what will the current generation of students inherit after we shake off our mortal coils? Some of the more recent predictions regarding the health of this planet are rather dire. The planet is not in good shape.
How long will the human race be around for? Will we ever reach the stars? Will the human race see out the next 1000 years? The next 100 years?
Twelve or so years ago there were a few web sites that I liked to visit on a regular basis and share with other teachers when giving professional development regarding the Internet. Three sites in particular have reasonably stood the test of time… The Nine Planets, Volcano World and Astronomy Picture of the Day.
The Nine Planets is always a fascinating site to visit due to the quality of the photographs of the various bodies that inhabit our solar system. The site was established and is maintained by Bill Arnett. Bill included multimedia elements, such as audio and video, at an early stage of the site’s evolution. My favourite planets… Jupiter and Saturn. You can even find out about the Oort Cloud. Of course, the site’s banner testifies to Pluto’s recent exclusion as a planet. I feel that the original site, without adverts, looked better.
Volcano World stood out from the rest of the other sites evolving on the web back then due to the constantly updated content and quality of the materials. It was always supported with a rich set of external links. It utilised multimedia and excellent images. The site also has a blog.
Parts of the site have remained as is since the early days complete with horizontal bars and large navigational icons.
Finally, Astronomy Picture of the Day, was a site I visited as often as I could. The site is maintained by Robert J. Nemiroff and Jerry T. Bonnell. One thing that has always fascinated me about APOD is the fact that each daily entry is rich with a large number of links to supporting and related information. Robert and Jerry had fully utilised the power of hypertext links. Favourite images? Cat’s Eye Nebula, M17~stellar nursery, Saturn and Jupiter.
Westley Field, an old sparring partner of mind from that good old multimedia days at the University of Wollongong is always at me to be ‘online’ more often. That is, he often mentions that he cannot find me so to that end I have been leaving Skype and iChat online. Well, Westley and I have have had more chats of late and more collaborations have been generated as a result.
Well, last weekend I had a quick chat with Westley while he was in San Francisco and I knew he was heading over to Strawberry to take a canoe ride with Alan Levine. Well the iChat was fired up and we three managed to get in a quick conversation. It was good to actually speak with Alan (and Westley too!). All previous communications had been comment exchanges about recycling wood and interesting conference speakers.
Nothing serious. Quick chat about canoeing, looking for water, dogs, cats, absent principals, meeting my wife, NECC, July meetup, my next trip to Singapore, Skoolabarate Congress 2008 and the possibility of dragging Alan across to Singapore in February of next year for a conference. Laughed about collaborations, being high maintenance, and adventures abroad.
A nice moment all in all. Technology can be good. It’s wireless. Its now. Think about it. Half a world away from each other, sixteen hours apart, yet three blokes share a laugh, swap a few notes and cement those bonds.
Had a great lunch today as once again staff gathered together to share their tips and tools. It has been a fortnight since our first get together. Today a variety of tools were shared… from SnapNDrag to Time Machine. From GarageBand to Wikis. There was a nice roll up of staff keen to check out new ideas. There was Lynda, Louise, David, Marion, Michelle, Clare, Steve, Peter, Wayne, Frank, Maria, Judy, Wayne and myself.
Today we were joined by Maria, Clare and Frank
David showed how incredible GarageBand can be for creating music tracks. Imports, edits and quick mixes were ably demonstrated by David. This worksheet for creating podcasts in Garageband will provide some good ideas regarding use of the tool. David pointed out how useful GarageBand was in the teaching of music and languages for example. Frank also indicated the value of GarageBand for recording and editing speeches given by students.
GarageBand
David also took the opportunity to show a tool that teachers would find useful if they ever need to de-stress a little. Goodness knows teachers need to chill out from time to time. Anyway, the site is Brain Train. There are a variety of activities that can give your brain a bit of a workout and take your mind of matters for a moment. Yes!
Brain Train
Lynda shared two of the most interesting features of the Mac OSX Leopard operating system… Spaces and Time Machine.
Spaces allows you to run multiple desktops so that you can spread out your running applications, files and documents across several screens. It allows you to have an uncluttered desktop. A simple keyboard shortcut will take you from one screen to the next. You may have a browser running in one space, image processing apps in a second space, word documents in a third space and iTunes in a fourth space. There is a good demo of Spaces by David Sparks of MacSparky fame on YouTube. David has quite a few Mac “How To” videos on his macsparydotcom YouTube page.
Spaces
Time Machine is way overdue on the Mac. It is like Restore in the Windows environment. You can schedule backups of your data to an external hard drive. Time Machine has an excellent interface that allows you to track back in time to a particular back up date and restore your data as you wish.
Time Machine
Louise shared SnapNDrag with the group. This is an excellent screen capture tool for the Mac that allows you to programme your screen grabs. You can name the cpatures on the fly, alter the file type output and retreive captures made earlier. Very versatile.
SnapNDrag
Coincidentally, another collague, Kevin, shared a nifty little screen grab tool called SharpShooter that allows you to name your screen grabs on the fly. I like it! Louise also mentioned an excellent screen capture tool from the wonderful team that created Comic Life. It is called Skitch! Check it out
David raised a question about creating “How To” documents with labelled images that include arrows and the like. I mentioned how I like to use Comic Life to create How To documents like this one. Wayne added that he uses the clip art and symbols and in Microsoft office to create his documents. Lynda mentioned that she uses Keynote to create her how to documents. Interesting. That needs checking out.
Comic Life
I shared Wikispaces with the group and also shared some excellent wikis created by eduactors around the globe including:
There was one interesting observation… as we connected our Mac laptops to the projector VGA cable we utilsed at least three different dongles depending on the model Mac that we used. Apple, please get your act together and design a standard fitting.
Once again, a great lunch was had by all. Stay tuned for our next gathering or simply subscribe to this blog via email or through an RSS feed.
How did I create this blog post? This blog post was created using Wordpress. The web browser was Flock. The images were captured using SharpShooter and processed using Adobe Photoshop Elements. The images were uploaded to my web host, ICDSoft, using CyberDuck. The digital photographs were taken with a Casio EX-760 digital camera that resides in my pocket. The digital photographs were uploaded to my MacBook Pro using a MobileGear USB 2.0 card reader.
Recently a group of teachers at school met together during lunch to exchange technology tips and tools. The meet-up had its genesis couple of weeks back with a thought that I felt it would be good to team up with like-minded and positive thinking individuals and share ideas.
To be honest I have not been firing on all six cylinders in a spiritual sense of late and I needed perking up so instead of sitting there in the mud I felt why not create an opportunity for a group of positive and forward thinking individuals to get together and share ideas. That is certainly the best cure for the blues I know. Surround oneself with happy people. Fair enough?
I mentioned this idea after school one day to our Learning Technology Coordinator, Lynda, and an email went out to the staff inviting interested parties to attend our first lunchtime meeting. It happened just over a week ago. I have been buried in marking since then and this is the first chance I have had to sit down and clearly document that first get together
We met in Room 27, a Macintosh Computer Lab that is affectionately known as the “Cage”. In addition to myself there were 11 other staff members present: Lynda, Louise, Peter, Judy, Marion, Melanie, Michelle, Chris, Sandra, David and Steve. Teachers, librarians, support staff and administrators.
It is an informal group and the idea is simply to demonstrate tips and tools and to exchange notes. The emphasis is on sharing. At our first meeting Lynda got the ball rolling by sharing Mindmeister with the group.
Lynda demonstrated how this online mind mapping tool could allow students and teachers to collaborate on mindmaps. As its own blurb points out, “users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map – and see each other’s changes as they happen. Using integrated Skype calls, they can throw around new ideas and put them down on ‘paper’ at the same time.” It looks quite neat. Need to investigate that Skype interaction.
Lynda followed this with a quick demo of Vixy.net. This service allows you to download YouTube videos reasonably easily. As the home page states, “it converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder“. David asked a question about conversion formats and we shared ideas regarding mp4, move and other video formats.
I mentioned Tooble with the team as well. It is a neat client side software tool that allows you to search YouTube and perform multiple downloads of selected YouTube videos. Mac or Windows.
Following Lynda I gave a demo of CompFight, an unusually named online tool that allows you to search the Flickr image database rather easily.
I entered the terms Thera and archaeology into the search field and eighty nine excellent thumbnail images appeared. All were relevant to the current topic that I am teaching to Year Eleven Ancient History. The tool has a safe search mode.
After that I demonstrated Google Reader and indicated how it allows the web to come to me rather than I reaching out to the web for news, ideas and tools. I illustrated some of the advantages of subscribing to blogs, del.icio.us links, flickr feeds, news media feeds and other sources.
Then, Peter took the stage and gave an inspiring demonstration of the Photo Book feature within the Apple Mac app, iPhoto.
Peter has created some excellent ‘coffee table’ books illustrating the travels of his family and important events in the lives of his children. It is an excellent facility. Peter showed how one can employ the Autoflow setting to create the book, utilise templates and add text.
There was some spare time and I showed the group how I had set up a Mac 7.0.1 emulator on my MacBook Pro currently running Mac OS 10.5.2. Running the emulator is like stepping back in time 18 years. The software used is Mini vMac. It runs off a thumb drive.
We all enjoyed a nice meal of pizza, drinks and even a caramel mud cake. Lynda organised the food and drinks. Legendary Lynda! It was an excellent way to spend lunch. It may have been a cold and gloomy wintry day outside but within that room there was considerable collegial warmth and we all had a thoroughly good time. As I took a few photographs, with Peter’s help, I remarked on how excellent I felt the get together had been. We all had a great time.
Lynda wants to call us the Geek Group. I would like to call it, with a wry smile on my face, the Advanced Technology Group. Any suggestions?
Stay tuned for updates on following get-togethers.
How did I create this blog post? This blog post was created using Wordpress. The web browser was Flock. The images were processed using Adobe Photoshop Elements. The images were uploaded to my web host, ICDSoft, using CyberDuck. The digital photographs were taken with a Casio EX-760 digital camera that resides in my pocket. The digital images were uploaded to my MacBook Pro using a MobileGear USB 2.0 card reader.
Marc Prensky has had an article published over on edutopia, Young Minds, Fast Times: The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner. I have mixed feelings about the article. I cannot help but feel that Marc has a habit of stereotyping teachers. There are good teachers out there. Many good teachers.
The article concludes with a synopsis as follows:
Talk to your students. They’re filled with great ideas on how to integrate tech into the classroom.
Lead by listening. Skip the classroom lecture and initiate discussions instead.
Ask students: What experiences in school really engaged you? How do you use technology in school as opposed to outside of school? What are your pet peeves?
This is already happening in many schools and classrooms.I agree, listening and talking to the students is a good idea. Gain their input.
Marc writes, “I’ve heard teachers argue that some subjects and topics need to have lectures, but, in truth, this is only a justification for the failure of those teachers to change how they teach.” I use lectures. It is one of the tools that I select from my backpack of teaching strategies. I do not stand there and speak parrot fashion. I roam, wander, gesticulate, grab props, involve students and tell the story. I share history. I live history. Many teachers adopt this approach. We all adopt many different approaches. Using the lecture is certainly no failure on my part. It is just one of the approaches I adopt and my students enjoy it. They look forward to it.
Not all classroom lectures are abysmal. I have been inspired and also entertained by great classroom lectures both at school and university.
Personally, I know I can engage the students with my historical recounts and storytelling. There is a place for classroom lectures. That form of instruction has a place in our society. It is a skill that should be shared with students. Their future careers may require the use of that skill at some time in the future. Who knows, they may become orators, speakers or even political leaders. The classroom lecture should not be simply cast aside or written off. Of course, the lecture can and should also be followed with discussion and shared input.
Marc writes that “we generally don’t make the slightest attempt to listen to, or even care, what students think about how they are taught”. I disagree, even on a general level. Myself and other colleagues are constantly listening to our students. That is how it is in the classrooms and playgrounds today. Students engage and share their opinions far more than ever before. Their thoughts and opinions are not always shared in a polite manner but at least they are shared. Students simply feel that their ideas are there to be shared. They talk, we listen.
In the past I have allowed some of my classes to vote on the topics that they wish to be taught. The syllabus allows this in some courses where a mandatory programme is not required to be taught. I must note that even the mandatory syllabus topics allow some scope for choice. The students have a diverse choice and in fact they can create their own case studies and areas of research.
Only, yesterday, as another example, I asked a class what they felt was the best way to tackle a particular activity. I shared with them that I personally was not all that good with drawing and artwork and as a result had no personal exemplars that I could share with them yet I was hoping that the class could use these skills in a new and collaborative way to rework what we have all been learinng together during this semester. We shared possibilities, mapped out some strategies and they got on with the task. The idea worked well for about 80% of the students present. Not all could handle the freedom allowed. They preferred to adopt a more prescribed approach and found it difficult to collaborate. On the whole the class enjoyed the opportunity to decide the approach they wished to take with the task ~ collages and posters relating to topics taught so far this semester ~ communism, cold war, Vietnam War, changing rights and freedoms, land rights, native title, indigenous peoples.
The students do have the opportunities to use technology and we do make use of the tools. Not as often as I would like but it still happens
I still have reservations regarding Marc’s digital natives versus digital immigrants dichotomy of the past that seems to underpin much of his thought in this article. There is no way that I am a digital immigrant simply due to my generational status. I have posted on this theme before… [ September 2007 | October 2007 ] I know that myself and many other of my colleagues actually use technology in a more meaningful and productive manner that nearly all 1000 students at our school. Only a few of the students at the school are actually publishing online and actually achieving productive or meaningful outcomes either as individuals or as members of a community. I do not believe that the use of MySpace and Facebook by some of the students qualifies as publishing. Admittedly, some of the students meaningfully write on their MySpace pages. Others, however, are simply trying to generate extensive lists of ‘friends’ and adding photographs. Is that writing and publishing? Sure the students can type and text faster than I yet not many have the knowledge and understanding of the possibilities of technology that myself and many of the teachers at our school possess.
The article by Marc was sub-titled, “How tech-obsessed iKids would improve our schools“. Please, no more cliche terms ~ iKids. For goodness sake, they are students and children. Why must they be labeled iKids? Perhaps the sub-editors at edutopia had a hand in that. Are they really obsessed with technology? I feel it is not an obsession. It is just part of their lives. Technology is just there. Not an obsession per se.
Marc Prensky states he is 62 years of age in the article yet he writes that, “it is a measure of the malaise of our educational system that these old folk — smart and experienced as they may be — think they can, by themselves and without the input of the people they’re trying to teach, design the future of education.” I find the term old folk to be derogatory and a slight. I am 49. What’s wrong with being old? I am sure there is some wisdom in those brains and and experience in those bones that hold us up. There are old teachers who are listening to students.
Students are providing inputs. Yet I must question, how many of our students today could actually provide valuable, constructive and significant input as to how students are taught now and in the future? Not that many. Indeed, there are students that are wise beyond their years. Yes, there are students that are creative, deep thinkers and capable of sharing rich foresight. Their thoughts, experiences and feelings should be tapped into by educators. Yet these students are not in the main. They are a subset of the general school population. Not all students are capable of providing a constructive input. How many students have a deep or meta understanding of technology, teaching and learning integration? Sure, some will, but not many. The same applies to all segments of the population. I have a feeling this may generate a comment or two.
Marc feels that by not allowing students to provide input into their education ‘is unacceptable and untenable’. He adds that “It’s also dangerous. Or else our students will drop out (as they are doing), shoot at us (ditto), sue us, riot, or worse.” Marc seemingly envisions a world with mobs, mayhem and murder in the classroom. Now I admit I am a little cynical and also pessimistic at times given climate change, food riots and our over dependence on oil but I cannot imagine a world with maniacal students and streets littered with dead educators.
This dire approach by Marc is clutching at straws. It is tabloid journalism. Did Marc Prensky really write that? I find it hard to believe that any educator worth their salt could write anything as sensational as that. Does he really believe that our students will assassinate us if we do not allow them to decide how they wish to be taught? Are students that angry about the current state of affairs? I cannot see it from where I teach. What does Marc mean by “or worse“? I wonder what could be worse than being shot at? Sent to Guantanamo Bay by a mob of student vigilantes, perhaps?
Marc writes that, “There are better ways to help them learn, and students expect us, as the adults in the room, to know how to use them.” Okay Marc, I would be happy to know the ways. I am eager to always learn something new.
Marc states that “Students universally tell us they prefer dealing with questions rather than answers, sharing their opinions, participating in group projects, working with real-world issues and people, and having teachers who talk to them as equals rather than as inferiors.” Well, that is exactly how students are taught in our school. That is how I teach.
Can I assume, according to the vibes Marc’s article is generating for me, that students elsewhere are schooled differently? I use ther term schooled as I feel it indicates a retrograde form of learning and teaching. Schools do need to change, but not all schools. Some schools are actually doing a good job.
Well, that was a bit of a rant I guess. Not fully formed. Seemingly unfinished. Perhaps some of my readers can help me to finish this post? Perhaps even finish it off! Well, get on with it John! Press that Publish button already!
Addendum. I forgot to add… I grow tired of the over the use of the term “Twenty-First Century” in relation to education. The fact that we are living during the 21st century has no bearing on how we teach and learn. It is all relative. Frankly, I have not been overly impressed with the 21st century to date. I think the human race will come to a crunching halt in the not too distant future if we do not curb our excesses. How will technology be manufactured when the oil reserves, real or otherwise, are no longer available? This century is not even a decade old.
Last night, about 5.00PM, I opened up Google Reader and there were exactly 400 unread items. It had only been a couple of days since I had cleared Google Reader. I marked some folders as ‘read’ and then scanned through the remaining items and earmarked 46 of the posts for later reading. So 46 posts out of 400 caught my eye. About 10%. Time to rethink the number of blog subscriptions I read.
This morning I opened up Google Reader and deleted about 100 blog subscriptions. I had subscribed to about 240 blogs and various other feeds. I deleted some blogs that seemingly mirrored others and those which had not been updated for several months. Some were easy to delete as I had simply subscribed to them during workshops. I had been wanting to perform this digital surgery for some time
I am going to peruse some of the top 50 P-12 blogs listed by Scott McLeod that I have not subscribed to at this point in time. Shall add them if I feel they serve my needs. I will probably then sift through Google Reader once more.
It was definitely time to rationalise the number of blogs that I read. It was simply taking up too much of my time. Time that should be spent with my wife, listening to music, playing with the cat and performing tasks such as lesson preparation. Important things.
Attempted to remove my Twitter feed from my Jaiku feed. Felt that the Jaiku feeds should be a consistently concrete. Sometimes my tweets are a little flippant. Anyway, upon making the attempt to remove the Twitter feed within the Jaiku settings panel I received the two messages below. Makes me smile.
Who turned up the heat? Not me! Then this…
If I do not own the stream, then who does?
One other thing, Twitter… Please do something about the spammers with a built in ‘Report Spam’ link or a more effective blocking and/or filtering mechanism built into the settings.
This is the blog site of John Larkin. I am a secondary school teacher who lives in New South Wales, Australia.
In addition to teaching history I have also been involved in the development and application of educational technologies at primary, secondary, tertiary and corporate levels.
The following links will take you to a constantly updated set of resources and links that are focused upon implementing Web 2.0 and other technologies in the classroom.
