During a recent workshop on Internet safety, I attempted to provide teachers with classroom-related examples of Web 2.0 use. It might have been more information than they needed since they arrived expecting to hear about iSafety, not student projects. As I rethink the workshop agenda, I’m collecting sample videos to provide quick – and maybe [...]

Part of my morning routine generally includes reading David Warlick’s 2 cents blog. He was in San Francisco this week to present at the 25th Technology, Reading Learning Diversity Conference. That’s a new one for me. Had I known about it, I would have made the 2.5 hour trip from the foothills to “the City” [...]

California school districts needing to write or update their Tech Plans will have a new requirement: include a component to educate pupils and teachers on ethical behavior in the use of information technology, the concept, purpose and significance of a copyright, and the implications of illegal peer-to-peer network file sharing. AB 307 has also been [...]

I thank Wes Fryer for adding another layer to the rationale for including blogging as part our classroom curriculum. If our students can show parents how their involvement in purposeful, monitored classroom blogging is engaging them – safely – in the learning process, parent perceptions about Web 2.0 will change. “When a teacher establishes a [...]