Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit John Swett Elementary School in Martinez with my friend and colleague Jennifer Kloczcko (check out her post on the visit). John Swett Elementary is the home of Adam Welcome (@awelcome) and a team of innovative teachers who live the hashtag #teamkid. The original plans for our visit stemmed […]
My first year in the classroom education was at the height of the No Child Left Behind revolution. All of the teachers at my school site, including me, had been deemed “highly qualified” so my school district decided that they could cut all professional development funds and did so for quite a few years. Sheer […]
Well, I’m back home and rested up from an exciting week in Washington DC at NECC09. It was an interesting experience that in many ways I am still trying to process. The last time I attended NECC was in 2006 when the conference was held in San Diego. I have to say that I wasn’t […]
What would email or instant messaging look like if they were invented today? This is a question Google is attempting to answer with their new product, Google Wave. Wave or I guess GWave was announced yesterday at the Google I/O Conference, the giant Google developer event. I have to admit that describing Google Wave is […]
I stumbled across the above video this morning while searching for resources for by strategic action team. Whether you’ve never used Twitter before or if you’re an avid Tweet-sender this TED talk has something for everyone. I also think its a great example of the power in following a hunch and how Web 2.0 tools […]
Another year…another wiki. Last year my students constructed a wiki textbook along with a wiki glossary. The year before we used the Moodle wiki as work spaces for a roller coaster project. This year we’re using wikis again and adding a new collaboration – a Wiki Periodic Table. I love using wikis in the classroom […]
As I mentioned earlier this week I chose to take in Tuesday’s historic election returns “web 2.0 style.” Its taken me a few days to cobble my thoughts together, but this morning I wanted to share a short synopsis. Tuesday night I truly observed some amazing things and with the passage of Prop 8 in […]
Like many of you I will be plopping down in front of the television tomorrow night to watch election coverage. But you can bet that my top 5 websites, or web 2.0 tools, will be the place to find out what’s happening BEFORE the traditional news outlets. And, after eight long years of the current […]
As anyone who has ever stumbled past my “Joe Who” page knows, a few years ago I switched school districts and unknowingly entered the realm of education technology when part of an EETT grant fell into my lap. “High tech” at my previous school consisted of the personal laptop I brought to school and secretly […]
At the moment I am working on presentation for tomorrow and I stumbled across this great graph aptly showing that I was definitely not alone while tweeting about the earthquake and watching the Twitterverse. The LA Times Technology Blog had a great post yesterday, SoCal earthquake has everyone a-Twitter, describing how earthquake reports spread through […]