What is really meant web 3.0, or the semantic web?A cool slideshare. The next next big thing?
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Nicholas Negroponte and the One Laptop Per Child initiative
The mission of this non-profit association is to develop a low-cost laptop - the "$100 Laptop" - a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Their goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. Hear Nicholas Negroponte bring us up to date on the project.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Two online organizational applications
mynoteIT- http://www.mynoteit.com
upload word, open office docs, images, scanned notes, etc. has to do list, bookmark lists, calendar, create groups
Google Notebook- http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/tour1.html
browse 'clips', and organize information, notes, get access from anywhere, publish your notebook
mynoteIT seems more straightforward than google notebook,wysiwyg, uses 'tags' for notes
I'm a big Google fan but Google notebook seems a little hard to understand. Seems much more complicated than mynoteIT. Does not work on Safari browser.
They are both designed to be online note taking tools/organizational tools.
upload word, open office docs, images, scanned notes, etc. has to do list, bookmark lists, calendar, create groups
Google Notebook- http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/tour1.html
browse 'clips', and organize information, notes, get access from anywhere, publish your notebook
mynoteIT seems more straightforward than google notebook,wysiwyg, uses 'tags' for notes
I'm a big Google fan but Google notebook seems a little hard to understand. Seems much more complicated than mynoteIT. Does not work on Safari browser.
They are both designed to be online note taking tools/organizational tools.
Monday, June 16, 2008
How I view technology in education
It's becoming ubiquitous. We need to view and use technology as we would a book or a blackboard or a desk.
Technology gives us the tools to create experiences for our students that they would otherwise have missed. They can go to places in the world without ever leaving the classroom.
Another benefit is that technology allows for individualized instruction created to meet specific needs for each student. Technology gives an enormous variety of activities on the same subject but at varying degrees of difficulty and with varying degrees of knowledge needed.
A major strength of embedding technology in the learning process is that it teaches students how to become independent life-long learners. Technology allows students the resources to discover information on their own. Including it in the education process gives them a job skill that might not be there otherwise.
Technology gives us the tools to create experiences for our students that they would otherwise have missed. They can go to places in the world without ever leaving the classroom.
Another benefit is that technology allows for individualized instruction created to meet specific needs for each student. Technology gives an enormous variety of activities on the same subject but at varying degrees of difficulty and with varying degrees of knowledge needed.
A major strength of embedding technology in the learning process is that it teaches students how to become independent life-long learners. Technology allows students the resources to discover information on their own. Including it in the education process gives them a job skill that might not be there otherwise.
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