Posted in Web 2.0, education, mashup, publishing on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Thanks to Amy Mayer, a guest blogger for Free Technology for Teachers, for recommending Glogster, an online poster creation tool. Not only did I register for an account for me, I could request up to 200 student logins. In my humble opinion this feature alone make Glogster one of the most brilliant of all Web [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, education, writing on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Back in July I Silvia Tolisano’s blog Langwiches led me to Mixbook. After reading the FAQs I signed up for an account, gave the site a brief workout, tagged it in my Delicious account, and didn’t revisit the tool until today. It’s not that I didn’t agree with Silvia’s recommendation and review of the site [...]
Posted in 21st century classroom, Professional Development, Web 2.0, comic, literacy, publishing, writing on Jul 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
Miguel Guhlin over at his Thinkfinity Texas blog recently shared some great lessons at the ReadWriteThink site to guide teachers in using the graphic novel genre to help students develop their writing and literacy skills. If you have been looking for a way to bring comics and graphic novels into your ELA instruction ReadWriteThink [...]
Posted in blogging, publishing, writing on Jan 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
A couple of days ago the gurus over at SegaTech posted “Change the World…Change the Margins.” They ask their readers to help them figure out why, with access to Web 2.0 tools for blogging, collaborating through wikis, and creating websites without using complicated authoring software, (and I’ll through in networked schools and email), the [...]
