Resources for Teaching and Learning via Technology
How to set up a student centered classroom blog by M Hetherington provides a step-by-step account of managing a classroom blog from A Middle School Perspective.
Learning Blogger - Hosted by Molly E. Holzschlag, Learning Blogger is a movie-based workshop for audiences new to blogging and to the Blogger weblog service, a free service from Google. Learn what blogs are and the various ways they can be used. You will be introduced to setting up your weblog, adding specialty features such as comment systems and news-feeds, working with and customizing templates, and even creating team blogs and audio blogs.
Definition of "Vlog" from wikipedia
Vlogmap.org - a combination of Google Maps and vlogging - click on a pin and watch the Vlog from the person at that location.
Mefeedia.com - a vlog directory that includes tagging like del.icio.us.
vlogdir.com - a vlogging directory.
Fire ant - a vlog aggregator/player.
Screencasting from Leigh Blackhall - Teach and Learn Online -- screen grabs and audio explanations to demonstrate ways to teach and learn online.
A screencast within a screencast: A strong presentation from Drexel University about using screencasts, podcasts, blogs, etc. in support of education.
This screencast is a must-see for anyone who is new to teaching & learning via technology, especially for teachers seeking new ways to reach students.
Beyond the Blog: A hardy screencast by Brian Lamb at the University of British Columbia showing how one might use various web technologies in the classroom. Here's a link to the wiki for additional follow up.
Cog Dog Blog's Alan Levine post on Podcasting a Meeting About Podcasting.
Ed Tech Talk Show
Ed Tech Talk offers brainstorming and discussions covering all things related to educational technology.
The Education Podcast Network: The Education Podcast Network-- This site is "an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers." The site brings together podcasts from a couple dozen or so podcasters. Strong in concept, however there is no output feed you can subscribe to bringing together all the educational podcasts of the day.
The E-Learning Queen: Susan Nash Smith aka The E-Learning Queen has a series of podcasts and e-learning that are direct and to the point. I like Susan's approach: keep it short and simple.
Xplana zine provides regular podcasts covering a range of ideas and concepts involving e-learning. You'll find Susan Nash Smith here too.
Ed Tech Posse: The Ed Tech Posse saddles up regularly providing interviews and coverage of all things re; educational technology.
Why Podcasts Are Not Interesting Dave Taylor's Podcast on Why Podcasting isn't Interesting.
"It takes 30 minutes to listen to a thirty minute podcast, but if you give me 10 pages of material to read, I can scan through it in 15-30 seconds. I follow over 150 Web sites daily with my RSS aggregator - but I couldn't digest 150 podcasts every day because there simply aren't enough hours in the day."
Christopher Sessums: My feeds via Bloglines.
Stephen Downesfeeds via Bloglines.
Will Richardson's feeds via Bloglines.
Using Wikis to Empower Student Learning -- a wiki presentation by Elizabeth Elzer, Steven A. Greenlaw, and Dean Shaffer, Department of Economics, University of Mary Washington.
Knowledge Sharing and Social Software
A presentation for the AOK Star Series: November 21 - December 02 2005
Wiki How offers users a How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit.
Wiki Evaluation Methods ONE and TWO.
Do you want to start a wiki or explore different ways in which wikis can be used?
Let the Wiki Tipster help you.
Think outside the blog... build yourself a wiki for collaborative group assignments. Article in Tech Learning by Tim Stahmer.
Dr. Coop's What Can You Do With a Wiki Workshop - An Ocotillo sponsored workshop for faculty wanting to learn about wikis. Participants will get hands on experience with a couple of free wiki applications, and they will learn not just how to use a wiki, but what you can use a wiki for.
Things you can do with RSS by Tim Yang.
50+ RSS Ideas for Educators by Quentin D'Souza at Teaching Hacks.
RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators -- Whether you're just starting out with Weblogs and related technologies or you've dug in pretty hard, this RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators (.pdf) will hopefully help you see the potential for RSS feeds in your classroom.
Building a School Website One Blog at a Time from Rob Wall.
Edublogs -- Ewan Mcintosh shows how blogs and podcasts aren't just a gimmick: they can be used to provide powerful learning in Scottish schools.
Educational Weblogs -- Disruptive Technology Resource for Educators using Weblogs, Blogware, Collaborative tools, RSS & Podcasting, web services and digital tools at home, school, university and community.
Edublog Insights by Anne Davis provides comments, reflections and occasional brainstorms regarding the world of teaching, learning and technology.
Cool Cat Teacher by Vicki A. Davis and Bud the Teacher by Bud Hunt are two highly recommended websites by two very passionate, practicing classroom educators. Both provide handfuls of readily useable examples of how to plug technology directly into your curriculum.
Using del.icio.us -- a nice video tutorial on using one of the more popular social bookmarking tools.
7 things you should know about Social Bookmarking from the Eduause Learning Initiative (ELI).
No Significant Difference -- one of the original sites to compile research on teachng and learning with technology
NCREL report: Critical Issue: Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement by Honey, Culp & Spielvogel (2005).
2020 - Future of Computing -- In the last two decades advances in computing technology, from processing speed to network capacity and the internet, have revolutionized the way scientists work. From sequencing genomes to monitoring the Earth's climate, many recent scientific advances would not have been possible without a parallel increase in computing power - and with revolutionary technologies such as the quantum computer edging towards reality, what will the relationship between computing and science bring us over the next 15 years? This Nature web focus combines commentaries from leading scientists and news features analysis from journalists assessing how computing science concepts and techniques may transform mainstream science by 2020.
Crash Course in Learning Theory
Visualizing Del.icio.us Roundup at Solution Watch -- a variety of del.icio.us visualization tools that allow you explore your tagging patterns among other things.
Spell with Flickr
Mayomi -- nifty mind mapping software.
Darcy Norman at the University of Calgary has put together a terrific set of presentations covering wikis, weblogs, RSS, podcasting, and a whole lot more.
CGI Wikispace offers a host of applications and resources that cover all the above here (content) and here (tools).
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