Bill Kerr: cotton wool culture

Society is too protective of children. Bill writes on the cotton wool culture.

tags: society

Tips for Avoiding Problems on Virtual Teams » VisualsSpeak blog

Informative post about maintaining sound connections within virtual teams.

tags: virtual teams, collaboration

The Fischbowl: Should We Be Teaching This in “Social Studies?”

Karl Fisch ponders the question… Should we be teaching that social transformation of society that is powered by the net via our social studies curriculum.

tags: social media, social studies

The Clever Sheep: Teaching Them to Teach Themselves

Rodd Lucier sets out some excellent strategoes that can be applied when introducing students to the read-write web in an education setting.

tags: tagging, web 2.0, social media, students, teachers

The Clever Sheep: To Tweet or Not to Tweet…

Rodd Lucier provides a nice analysis of the value of that quirky little social networking tool, Twitter.

tags: Twitter, social media, web 2.0

The Fischbowl: Shift Happens Statistic of the Day

Karl Fisch reveals a world where billions of new web sites are created every day.

tags: statistics, information, Internet

Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » Student and Teacher Blogging that Succeeds

Dean Shareski sets out a number of excellent tips for blogging by educators. This is a most informative post.

tags: blogging, students, edtech

educational-origami » Bloom’s and ICT tools

Excellent wiki that reminds us all of Bloom’s Taxonomy and illustrates how it can be applied to digital tactics and strategies.

tags: bloom, taxonomy, rubrics, assessment

E-Learning Journeys: How to Flatten Your Classroom - Getting Started

Planning a collaboration with another classroom, near or far? This post by Julie Lindsay is a good starting point.

tags: collaboration, global, web 2.0

Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender?

Thought provoking article on the semantic web. Will the semantic web be graced with a neutral gender or not?

tags: semantic web

Video Sharing Embed Comparisons

Excellent comparison of various video uploading services such as BlipTV and YouTube. Useful comments as well.

tags: video

Instructify » Blog Archive » Worldmapper combines geography and social science

This is a great tool for visual learners. Useful for geographers, economists and students of social studies.

tags: students, teachers, geography, economics

Tip 50 - Blogger as Collaborative Tool

Useful tip about collaborative blogging using Blogger. You can email images to a Blogger blog!

tags: blog, students, collaborative

Real Honesty about Second Life

Humiliation and ostracism are alive and well in Second Life. Newbies not welcome.

tags: web2.0, teachers, Second Life

TechTicker » Blog Archive » Video Tour of the Isle of Zapp

Great overview of Second Life from a practical and sensible point of view.

tags: Second Life, web 2.0

Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net : YouTube to Edublogs.tv

Timely post regarding the value of edublogs.TV for educators. Safe and secure.

tags: video, social media, web 2.0, edublogs.tv

The Bamboo Project Blog: Five Technology Tools for Capturing and Sharing On-the-Road Learning

Going on a road trip? Check out this great advice from Michele Martin.

tags: social media, web 2.0

The Bamboo Project Blog: Social Media Apps I’ve Tried to Love but Can’t

Great post by Michelle Martin about those social media apps that so many eulogise yet do not suit all. A good read.

tags: web 2.0, social media

Weblogg-ed » Is My Head (and My Life) in the Clouds?

Cloud computing. Where are you at? Head in the clouds or head in the sand?

tags: Internet

15 Desktop Blogging Tools Reviewed

Good review of some desktop blogging tools for both the Windows and Mac platforms.

tags: blogging, tools