06 Mar, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Social Web| Student Tools| Teacher Tools
A couple of days ago I wrote about a new twitter-like service designed especially for educators, called Edmodo. They posted a little screencast today. Looks promising:
Edmodo Screencast Teaser from Jeff O’Hara on Vimeo.
03 Mar, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Student Tools| Teacher Tools
Last week I linked to a great article about using Twitter in the classroom. Today I saw a new service that is in Beta right now that is a twitter-like web app specifically designed for the Classroom… Edmodo. I was not able to get in, but you can see some screenshots here.
It promises to [...]
29 Feb, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google| Student Tools| Teacher Tools| Video
So there have been live online streaming services for a while now, but none of them have seemed to take off.
Today TechCrunch linked to a video that said YouTube was going to have offer live video streaming services sometime later this year.
Aside from being a huge Google fan, this could potentially be important [...]
28 Feb, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Mobile| Student Tools| Teacher Tools
So couple of days ago I posted about a new Google Chat client that I have embedded on my blog. First off, it has been great fun to interact with all sorts of people that I normally wouldn’t get the chance to chat with! A lot of you just entered to see if worked, but [...]
04 Feb, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Social Web| Student Tools| Teacher Tools
AcademHack has a great article on the use of twitter in schools… check it out!
Ideas from the article:
Class Chatter
Classroom Community
Get a Sense of the World
Track a Word
Track a Conference
Instant Feedback
Follow a Professional
Follow a Famous Person
Grammar
Rule Based Writing
Maximizing the Teachable Moment
Public NotePad
Writing Assignments
Another thing which may be of interest… 7 Things you should know [...]
Several months ago I got a computer for my kids. I am techie and I want them to have the skills they need for the future, but protect them from some of the terrible stuff out there. After much research I came across this GREAT firefox extension called Glubble. At the time I liked the [...]
24 Jan, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google| Student Tools| Teacher Tools
GoogleTutor posted a nice reminder tutorial online today about the power of real-time collaboration with Google Docs and Spreadsheets. This past semester a class I was taking wrote a nice paper as a whole class and used Google Docs for gathering everything together between us all. Nice.
24 Jan, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Read/Write Web| Social Web| Teacher Tools| Video
Michael Wesch posted notes from a presentation he just did about why we should use YouTube in the classroom that I found very useful. Topics he covers:
Legality of using YouTube video’s
Why we use them
Tips for finding good video’s
Ways to Download them locally
Tools for Remixing them
Ways to incorporate them into our teaching
23 Jan, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Blogging| Teacher Tools
Oh this is just awesome! I just read about how an author, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, is using his blog to solicit feedback for a book he is publishing. Blog’s are really going mainstream when this happens.
Great idea though! One we have been using in education for a while… peer feedback. Of course a blog potentially [...]
The Four Eyed Technologist posted a great post with links to all the “7 Things you Should Know About” series from Educause. I have know about these for a while, but hadn’t kept up on it! You should really bookmark this page for talking with Faculty and Staf