I received this information in a comment on another post. Passing it along. Dear Madam: I’m a senior in high school in the United States and I am doing a project about technology use in other countries. I am trying learn about the types of technology that have had the greatest impact on our world as a whole, over the last 10 years, instead of just seeing how technology plays a role in the United States. I am hoping that…
The following is just a brain dump as I try to develop some workshop material on Digital Citizenship and communicating. Just thought I would share. Back in the day when I started teaching I used a ditto machine, occasionally a copy machine, phone and the US Postal service. There were no mobile phones, texting, email, discussion boards, internet, among others. Somehow we managed. Now there is a large number of ways we can communicate and connect, to some this is…
About a week ago my dad called telling me about 3D connexion‘s Space Navigator. My dad was reading about Second Life, trying to understand what is I do. Thanks to dad I now have the Navigator for notebooks. It arrived yesterday evening and I took it for a test spin last night in SL. I did need to download the new release candidate for SL. 3D connexion suggests setting up on the opposite side of the mouse. I do not…
In the last few weeks I have been trying to drum up business. Hoping to get teachers to work with new tools in the classroom, always a challenge as the year draws to a close. Anyway… I have been hearing more and more of the following lately. Why should I learn this tool, won’t there just be another one? What is ONE I should be using. There are too many tools what is the best one? I sympathize. I try…
Last weekend I was exposed to a new product called WorkBench by TRintuition. It is a flash, web based content creation tool. As Karen commented earlier, since it is flash based the text can not be read, thus it is not accessible by all. I took about 10 mins this morning to begin learning the tool. There is still more to explore. Here is my first attempt.
Today I attended a MassCUE leadership retreat where we participated in presentations regarding different tools and products for education. Two of the tools captured my attention and now have me completely distracted. Disruptive Technology Disruptive innovation often initially results in worse performance compared with established projects and service in mainstream markets. But disruptive innovations have other benefits. They are often cheaper, simpler, smaller and more convenient to use. Clayton Christensen author of The Innovator’s Dilemma (This is a book I…
I just finished writing the last post and typed in the title for this one when up pops my twitter feed showing that Ryan has already written about our impromptu learning session this morning. What a network! As Ryan is a much better writer then I, I will just direct you there. All I can say is that I have been a part of things like this for a while and it still amazes what a power we have. We…