David Hopkins produces another one in his series of slideshows–this time on why and how to blog in the classroom. As I’ve mentioned before, I found that my students’ writing has improved by light years since I’ve begun using classroom blogs. And, what’s more–they love it! Blogs in Education: How & Why View more OpenOffice [...]
As mentioned in several previous posts, I began including classroom blogs as part of my high school English curriculum this year. (I know, I should’ve been doing a long time ago!) The Tidertechie blog outlines more great reasons to include them as part of any class curriculum and includes suggestions on how to set things [...]
Tony Karrer investigates the Twitter phenomenon, particularly as it relates to learning and/or classroom application. I have to say, I’m finding it difficult to see how Twitter could be a major tool for learning in my classroom or personally, though it certainly can be a good tool for collaboration if used correctly. (As we cannot [...]
There continues to be resistance among some in education who see learning social networking skills and online publishing as somehow outside of the framework of the set curriculum. I could not disagree more. I have seen my learners’ writing skills improve astronomically via use of our classroom blogs, and recognize that so much of social [...]
Helen Barrett explains how GoogleApps can be a one-stop shop for creating centralized, dynamic, and effective e-portfolios. I’ve been using Blogger for my students’ blogs and had considered using other applications alongside, but Helen does a great job here showing how it can all work together. I’ll definitely plan on working more applications into my [...]
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