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July 23, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
Readers, it’s time to celebrate! The tools we now have to address varied needs of learners, of ALL learners, have expanded. They are easily available. And mostly, they are free. At Edubloggercon East, Karen Janowski and Cheryl Oakes led Making Assistive Technology Mainstream, a lively discussion surrounding the wealth of resources available that can […]
July 20, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
I’ve spent the past week at Alan November’s Building Learning Communities in Boston. This month, so filled with conferences, brought me back to a long-ago summer when I was ten. At the same time the World’s Fair landed in New York, I was due to go to summer camp. Though the family went without me […]
July 20, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
PandoraRevised I am very grateful to Bob Sprankle for podcasting my BLC presentation on information fluency and Web 2.0 tools. The slides that illustrate my points are also available on SlideShare. My big point here is that opening boxes is critical to learning. These boxes represent intellectual and academic freedom issues. As we open boxes […]
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July 16, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
Remember the reading resource wiki I blogged about last week? This is what it looks like on Glogster. As my wikis grew and grew to multiple pages, as the media I grabbed or created made each individual page longer, I began to crave a way to make my wikis prettier, to create a front […]
July 10, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
Back in June, my colleague Jeff, who teaches Global Studies, shared his disappointment that one of the weekly magazines he relied on for his course readings ceased publication. It occurred to me that we might be thinking about class readings and sharing content in a completely different way, in a fresher, far more dynamic way. […]
July 9, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
After meeting the wonderful Anita Beaman at NECC (don’t miss Reading 2.0, a wiki she developed with her colleague Amy Oberts), I had an epiphany. It occurred to me that I’d been overlooking what should be a huge part of my practice. I’d turned into ResearchGirl. And for years, ResearchGirl was far more powerful than […]
July 9, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
If you want to taste a little more of the energy of NECC, as well as the great fun I had making new friends, listen to my impromptu interview with the intensely clever blogger/podcaster extraordinaire Miguel Guhlin. Miguel is the Director of Instructional Technology at San Antonio Independent School District. We chat about digital transparency […]
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