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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

Good Monday morning to everyone out there. Just in case you missed it, Read/Write Web (one of my favorite sites) published an article this morning entitled: Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students. This is one of the most comprehensive lists I have ever seen for Web 2.0 products. Take some [...]

I ran across Zoho Notebook a while ago, but it was only in private Beta… well today it went public. Here is a short video introducing some of the features!

Now just imagine what you could do with this in education! Students keeping track of not only notes but all of their online content… video’s, [...]

Almost all of the students in classrooms K-12, and a large percentage of students in colleges are ‘digital natives,’ or students who grew up with ubiquitous access to digital media. These are those who can’t remember a time without e-mail and the internet. Because these students are intimately familiar with computers, the web, [...]

I ran across this great video this morning (on a blog in my RSS reader) for those of you who aren’t using RSS yet… now’s the time. Get on board!

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There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people [...]

I came across this great quick introduction to RSS reads this morning in my reads (through my RSS reads).  I, like Mark Wagner who wrote this article, have often been asked by people how I know this or that.  It is because of RSS.   My subscriptions keep me up to date without having to go [...]

I have been absolutely amazed at the way my research habits have changed since I became familiar with the web 2.0, RSS feeds, Google alerts, social bookmarking sites and so forth.  I am learning more, learning it faster, finding it easier, and in most cases, just waiting for it to come to me. 
I have [...]

I ran across an article today on kotte.org that made me think a bit.  The article itself is about Web 2.0 and how it became important, but one thing said really stuck out to me in regard to education and technology.
A slightly related way of thinking about how to choose web projects is to [...]

Just found this great webpage that has 10 tools for college students.  I post a link to it here both for my friends still in school that may read this, but also for instructors who want to know what students are using and how they are using it.  Every teacher that I know is (or [...]

This past week there has been a lot of buzz in the blogosphere about the changing web. Terms like Web 3.0, and even Web 4.0 have started to popping up again.  For those of us in education, we are just now enjoying Web 2.0 and beginning to implement some of the technologies from that.  [...]