I gave [StumbleUpon|http://www.stumbleupon.com/] a try today. It is a tagging and social bookmarking brower based tool with a fun little Firefox toolbar. It looks to be a really easy way to save and tag your favorite pages. You can also “stumble” to pages on the same topics that have been tagged by others in the […]
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There has been a lot of press lately about the Net Generation. Educause published a series of articles on Educating the Net Generation. I began reading the series with an article from a student's perspective. Unfortunately, after reading the article, I do not have a clear understanding of the problem nor the author's suggestions for
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For the past several months, I have accumulated links and trial software relating to various types of collaboration tools (some desktop applications, some Web based). This week, I had the opportunity to gather my thoughts on these wonderful new technologies. I documented my observations in a media accumulation and review "reflection paper" that assesses how
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I have gleefully embraced many new free internet based storage solutions and applications, including Flickr, Blogger, Writely and Furl. I have also touted them as signs of the revolution that will move us from reliance on our desktops. However, in the spirit of learning from mistakes, here is an example of what can happen when
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This morning, I was asked to contemplate a positive role model. I thought I’d share my observations. In a prior job, I used to comment that my boss was a “Teflon Don” – nothing bad would stick to him (and I mean that in the most positive light) and he could get away with things
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Thanks to Deborah Sacharoff for this expanded list of Professional Associations.
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How did I miss this wiki on new technologies for education?!? It made a “5” on my Furl rating.
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Here is a list of various IST related associations provided by our instructor: Instructional Systems Technology Association Web Sites: * Association for Educational Communication Technology – http://www.aect.org * International Society for Performance Improvement – http://www.ispi.org * International Society for Technology in Education – http://www.iste.org * American Society for Training & Development – http://www.astd.org * Association
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I've been working with Writely – an online web word processor – for the past couple of days. So far, it appears far superior to other writing collaboration tools (and wikis) I have seen. Beyond the word processing and wiki like functionality (spell check, comments, multiple save as options- to Word, a PDF, etc), it
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I’m sure this [post by Josie Fraser|http://fraser.typepad.com/edtechuk/2006/01/james_farmers_d.html] will be making the rounds as it is a nice little summary of the Edublog community.