If the terms “Blog,” “Ning,” and “Social Networking” are still nebulous to you, but you’re intrigued all the same about how you can engage both yourself and your students in these Web 2.0 tools, you may be interested in joining a new ning (online community of like-minded people, in this case, teachers or other affiliated [...]
Entries from February 2009
Blogs, Nings, and Social Networking
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Technology and Education · blogging · social networking · web 2.0
What do you need?: a Google meme game
February 15th, 2009 · 12 Comments
There is a Google meme game where you search your first name followed by “needs” and take the first ten logical responses and make a list. On facebook, you tag friends to do the same and perpetuate the challenge.
What if we took that idea and turned it into an analysis activity for literary characters. Instead [...]
Tags: Culture · Technology and Education · web 2.0
Always connected
February 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Just before Christmas we disconnected our land line phone (still not used to that term) in favor of a cell phone for each of us. This small act has had several effects: we’ve become part of the texting generation (which is not defined by age but perhaps by opportunity and need) and we’ve had to [...]
Tags: School in general
