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Do you hear the buzz? The new vocabulary of ed-tech talk bursts with keywords like blog, podcast, wikis, webinar and the ultimate umbrella term: Web 2.0. Web 2.0 describes a second generation of websites where the tech literate can read, write, publish and respond to information. Blogs, wikis, podcasts and webinars are the publication tools that make it all happen. Web 2.0, dubbed the Read/Write web by visionary educators and thinkers gives everyone with access to the Internet a truly international voice. (By last count a billion people are online.)
Yesterday we could use search engines, subject indexes and the deep web to locate, evaluate, and use digital information. Today we can do all that while juggling a remarkably diverse set of new user friendly web based applications to create and publish a custom tailored world of digital information.
Looks like a good e-portfolio platform for those without html experience. Tradeoff is you have to go with the templates, will be difficult to customize. Bonus is a very slick looking flash based site without too much tech overhead required.
Great one stop resource if you want to get up on podcasting. Wes Fryer is worth listening to!
Audio & video archive available.
And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for.
But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner.
Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter.
Free service limited to 30 students, after that for pay. Respond to polls on your website or via twitter, or by phone.
The concept of collaborative annotation may seem strange to you now. I think that the real nature of this work will provide a eureka moment that makes web 2.0 tools suddenly make a lot of sense!
Traditional methods & the digital counterpoint
A rich site for those who love annotated lists of tools and resources. This one lints to the Brainstorming page, lots of content here and well worth a visit!
Enter project-based learning, designed to put students into a students-as-workers setting where they learn collaboration, critical thinking, written and oral communication, and the values of the work ethic while meeting state or national content standards. Homewood School, in Tenterden, England, in that spirit, calls its PBL program Total Learning.
In traditional classrooms, students typically work on simple assignments that emphasize short-term content memorization; they work alone, write for the teacher alone, and rarely make presentations. But don't confuse PBL with simply doing activities injected into traditional education to enliven things as a culminating event for a learning unit. Real PBL, by contrast, is deep, complex, rigorous, and integrated.
Rich resources. Nicely segmented information on Bloom's taxonomy including the digital approaches. Helps me think.
I just discovered this official Diigo Blog. It's good to have another fresh source of insights to Diigo.
Have you ever wondered how you can share your “diigoed” page with someone who may not be a diigo user? No problem ~ it’s actually quite easy with Diigo’s innovative “Get Annotated link”!
Diigo’s “Annotated Link” is a special URL provided by Diigo that allows you to share the current webpage complete with highlights & sticky notes to anyone. Here is how:
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