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web 2.0

Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers

Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers | Educationload.com Educationload reports on the presentation Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers, available on Flypaper. It gives an overview of Web 2.0 applications useful for teaching-I’d add, which may change your life as teachers! Among … Continue reading

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ma.gnolia bookmarks, lost

Ma.gnolia The unthinkable happened. ma.gnolia, the social bookmarking site with thousands aficionados, lost its database. Users worldwide are not likely to recover their bookmarks, though the company has posted some strategies to re-capture them. Thus, as DigiZen teaches, let us … Continue reading

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Students reading?

Creativity coupled with Web 2.0 tech is finding a way into our classwork, and changing it. In one of his latest posts (How to get students to find and read 94 articles before the next class) Mike Wesch (Digital Ethnography) … Continue reading

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Mike Wesch: From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able

Mike Wesch gave a nice talk yesterday, at Educause’s ELI 09 meeting, titled “From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Experiments in New Media Literacy“, a conference on the state of education and the Web 2.0 revolution, which compels some serious questions on … Continue reading

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2009 Horizon Report

At Educause ELI09 meeting, Larry Johnson (NMC‘s CEO) presented the latest Horizon Report for 2009. The Report discusses the technologies which will be at the forefront of education during 2009 and it places them in three time horizons. The technologies … Continue reading

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