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December 25, 2007 by Joyce Valenza
Sorry, I disappeared for a bit–a flu-like thing, two holidays, some politics I cannot yet discuss–blocked the blogging habit. With everyone now home, the last couple of days have been a lovely mix of high and low-tech activities. Two days ago, Emily introduced me to Scrabulous as an app on my new FaceBook […]
December 16, 2007 by Joyce Valenza
Let’s keep an eye on this one. This week, the folks at Google announced its new Knol project in the official Google blog. A select group of people were invited field testing this beta effort. The word or concept Knol, stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a […]
December 15, 2007 by Joyce Valenza
The winners were announced at the Edublogs Award ceremony last weekend. That’s always fun. But my very favorite part of the event is Dave Cormier’s annual Top Ten EdTech Stories List (the first one I’ve seen this year). For the past three years (or so) Dave’s forced me to reflect on the big changes, as […]
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December 13, 2007 by Joyce Valenza
I wanted to share the latest in our student-produced video series. Earlier today I uploaded our new math instructional videos, developed in collaboration with Dan Meder’s Video Production class and members of our Math Department. These join our collection of grammar non-negotiables, developed last year for language arts, and our pilot series of information skills […]
December 12, 2007 by Joyce Valenza
EduCon 2.0 is both a conversation and a conference. If you have any interest in the use of 2.0 applications in education or in re-visioning learning in new communication and information landscapes, please consider attending Educon 2.0. Join our conversation, this time face-to-face. Birthed at Edubloggercon at NECC last summer, this (un)conference aims to mix […]
December 9, 2007 by Joyce Valenza
I’ve wondered over the past two years, as we’ve introduced new communication tools into our curriculum, how we might best provoke the student voice. For the most part, they blogged and wikied because we asked them to. I was hoping for a shift. Could we inspire students to blog and reflect on their learning on […]
December 7, 2007 by Joyce Valenza
Don’t get me wrong, I think they’re all winners, but I want to encourage you to attend my favorite online award ceremony. The gala 2007 Edublog Awards will be streamed live Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 21:30GMT (for translated global times). You have options for attending this big event: Web Based Venue: EdTechTalk Studio […]
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