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This could really be useful for classes as they surf the internet… it might be easier than trying to get a whole class into second life… and a bit easier to remember… interesting.
Weblin is a service that allows peo…

Welcome to Edutechie.com! If you’re new here, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Yesterday Steve Hargadon published an article entitled “Web 2.0 is the Future of Education” that every educator should read. Here are a couple of excerpts”
“I believe that the read/write Web, or what we are calling [...]

A couple of days ago I wrote about a new twitter-like service designed especially for educators, called Edmodo. They posted a little screencast today. Looks promising:

Edmodo Screencast Teaser from Jeff O’Hara on Vimeo.

AcademHack has a great article on the use of twitter in schools… check it out!
Ideas from the article:

Class Chatter
Classroom Community
Get a Sense of the World
Track a Word
Track a Conference
Instant Feedback
Follow a Professional
Follow a Famous Person
Grammar
Rule Based Writing
Maximizing the Teachable Moment
Public NotePad
Writing Assignments

Another thing which may be of interest… 7 Things you should know [...]

Michael Wesch posted notes from a presentation he just did about why we should use YouTube in the classroom that I found very useful.  Topics he covers:

Legality of using YouTube video’s
Why we use them
Tips for finding good video’s
Ways to Download them locally
Tools for Remixing them
Ways to incorporate them into our teaching

There are some handouts (PowerPoint, Teacher Handout, Student Handout) are available here. You should really check these out, especially if you are charged with teaching others about social bookmarking.
A very interesting title… think about it. How can social bookmarking help students screen and use resources online to helping scholars collaborate about things that [...]

Joanne Berg, Lori Berquam, and Kathleen Christoph. I decided to attend this session because students are using this technology. I am a firm believer that any technology that students are using we should at least take a look at.

This is a part of students life… the is the number one [...]

This morning I came across a great article on Tech Consumer entitled: “The Next Big Thing: Why Web 2.0 Isn’t Enough” by Marion Jensen. Marion says that the “next big thing is…location, location, location.” He goes on to explain:

I ran across Zoho Notebook a while ago, but it was only in private Beta… well today it went public. Here is a short video introducing some of the features!

Now just imagine what you could do with this in education! Students keeping track of not only notes but all of their online content… video’s, [...]

Almost all of the students in classrooms K-12, and a large percentage of students in colleges are ‘digital natives,’ or students who grew up with ubiquitous access to digital media. These are those who can’t remember a time without e-mail and the internet. Because these students are intimately familiar with computers, the web, [...]