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21 Aug, 2008

Online Reading & Writing with Wikis

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Teacher Tools| Web 2.0| Wiki

Welcome to Edutechie.com! If you’re new here, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Taught by Edward F. Gehringer from NC State (Associate Professor of Computer Science)
Advantages of Wiki’s

Co-editing: Howework done on wiki’s promote collaboration between students
Co-assembly: Different people can contribute different parts
Write more than a traditional word document
Don’t [...]

For those who don’t know Michael Wesch, he is the author of the classic Web 2.0 video’s on YouTube that I wrote about a while ago.
This presentation was really great. A lot of it was taken from his “A Vision of Students Today” video. If you haven’t see it.. start out with [...]

So today I am attending a conference at Elon University. It is their 5th annual summer “Innovation in Instruction” conference.
You can see the the schedule here. I will post updates throughout the day. This is my schedule.

Lessons from New Guinea for the Global Village and the Crisis of [...]

04 Apr, 2008

Books of the Future Using Twitter and Google Maps

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Digital Learners| General| Web 2.0

This morning I came across an interesting article about book publishing in the future.  Apparently Penguin Books is doing an experiment called “We Tell Stories” with delivering six different books through six different medium channels over the next six weeks.  The first two are already done…  Google Maps for the first week and a  Blogging/Twitter [...]

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 Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and politically have a greater impact than the advent of the printing press. [...]

I heard about SharePoint last year as a way to share content among each other. I know we have a campus agreement with Microsoft right now and as far as I know, all we need to do is enable this option on our servers. I am hoping that if I know more about [...]

I came across Zotero about 6 months ago and thought it looked very promising. I installed it then, but have rebuilt my computer several times since then and lost it in one of the rebuilds. When I saw this session I decided I had better check it out again. It looks like [...]

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 [...]

Stacey Kizer, EdD Doctoral Student at Pepperdine University.
I chose this session because it is supposed to be about “Best practices in developing, sharing, and using course content online
through wikis, blogs, podcasting, RSS feeds, and social bookmarking.” These are all new Web 2.0 technologies that I already work quite a bit with. I am [...]


About Jeff

I am an Academic Computing Expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love Google, Mac's, and Web Technologies that help us better reach, teach, connect, and prepare students to solve the world's greatest problems.

About Anthony

I am 20 years old, and a Sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My hobbies involve going to the gym, spending time with friends, and messing around on my computer. I am a Computer Science major right now, but there is too much math for my liking, so I am considering a switch to the Journalism School specifically multimedia design).