SupportBlogging

From the SupportBlogging Wiki educational website:

Uses for Blogging in Education

Teacher Communication
Teachers will often start a blog for providing communication to students, parents, or other teachers. Sometimes this is just the posting of homework or other assignments in one easy-to-find location. Other times this can be a richer description of the things taking place in the [...]

What He Said

We had a discussion in class today, my Gen M students and me.  It’s a small class normally, but one was absent…so now there were five.  Eng 100 students all.  They sat in a small circle at 5:30, tonight, talking about technology and the  shift from how my generation (Gen X) used it to theirs. 
One of my students [...]

The World Is Plugged In

Will Richardson recently posted that he’d revisted Thomas L. Friedman’s The World Is Flat in doing research for a book of his own.  Once again it got me thinking about the main metaphor of TWIF after having read the many reviews from the idiotic and purposely obtuse to the obvious fans discussing the topic.
Friedman’s flat world metaphor, despite the cover art, [...]

Getting Out “There” – Tip #3

If you’re going to teach online, you have to know the tools of the trade…or at least know of them.  Here’s 10 tech tools for online teachers you might want to check out (in no particular order…).  These are just examples – there are other various “brands” of some of these:

wikis – some sites are [...]