Maggie Tsai just posted a link to The Becta Report on the Benefits Web 2.0 in the Classroom, “a major new research into the use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs and social networking by children between the ages of 11-16, both in and out of the school environment.” In a nutshell, the [...]

For the past year or two, I’ve been including three of Michael Wesch’s wonderful short (3-5 minute) videos in my Web 2.0 workshops, usually in this order: Day One: Information Revolution Day Two: The Machine Is Us/ing Us Day Three: A Vision of Students Today I know many of you also tap into these resources. [...]

I’ve been tagged by Murcha for a meme challenge. Here are the rules: Think about what you are passionate about teaching your students. Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and give your picture [...]