Linda Cannon's Blog (6)

Hi guys, Is there anyone still using this site for shared info? I haven't been on for a long time but I wanted to share with you a new blog/webpage/wiki site. I'm trying it out this time. The students can work on wiki style work but in a site much more useful than the zoomshare site I showed you. It is Netcipia http://www.netcipia.net/xwiki/bin/view/MyNetcipia/ Take care Continue

Hi all,
I think this is in here somewhere already but I'm not sure where it has gone. For marking purposes here it is again. www.lcresearch.zoomshare.com
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Hi again,
Great job tonight those who presented! Looking forward to those yet to come.

This is a great and fun video podcast sight. Great for starting classes and full of material for all aspects of education.

miro
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Hi everyone,
Here is an interesting site on open source literacy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/09/1422211

Here is a link to my final project. It is still under going some revamping and adding too but it is functional now. Some of the videos on using Mind42 I even made! I'm having fun introducing this to my classes but the use of this website portfolio pro… Continue

I found that video particularly moving. I struggle tremendously in school with the boxed student 'product' we often end up attempting to construct (at least in academic highschool classes). I love that we encourage students to be the best chemist, biologist, author, doctor they can be but I think the way we go about it can sacrifice so much from the very heart and confidence of many students' being. Not everyone is meant to excel at everything. In fact some might be exceptional in… Continue

Have you seen this site! It's an almost bottomless list of technologies rated as 2.0 generation. I thought we had seen a lot already but this is mind blowing.

http://www.go2web20.net/


Another take on the growth of Web 2.0 and particularly avatars is the incredible economical and ecological drain. This is an interesting article doing the math of computer time, energy consumption and our other nations and cultures use of power.
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