Archive for April, 2009

Background Briefing
Writing thesis statements is difficult.  Writing good thesis statements even harder.  That’s why practice helps.  By combining a rich resource with a simple thinking scaffold, you can regularly exercise the thesis muscle (gluteus facts-a-must?).  Although the programs are long, ABC’s Background Briefing is a fine example of deep, first person research in a “radio [...]

TagGalaxy is an incredible mashup using images from Flickr and a really cool Flash interface.  You can use a series of single work search terms to explore how people have photographed and tagged the world.  Below is a combination of searching for “Culture” then “People”, then, to get close-ups, “Portrait.”  Whenever you are doing conceptual [...]

Why Wordpress.com?
Wordpress is the best free blogging software and it just keeps getting better. There are three main ways to get a Wordpress blog:

from Wordpress.com
through a Web Host with a Wordpress.org installation
with a free educational version of Wordpress MU (multi-user)

After many years helping educators get started with a ClassPortal / Blog / Web page, [...]

Background
Pageflakes is the best way to access a wide range of fresh digital content.  It does this by being an RSS Feed Reader (want a good video explanation?), but it goes about it in a very Web 2.0 way.  The IWB Blog Pageflakes feed tries to demonstrate how you can access audio podcasts, video lectures [...]

Alert: Be sure to visit the Look to Learn site
Introduction
One of the best ways for students of every age to develop greater cognitive sophistication is to join in a shared looking activity with at least one facilitating adult. As infants, children sat in our laps as we read picture books together. Today we [...]

After Registering and Logging-in, you are a participant in the IWB Blog.  You may want to post an activity or share a success in using an IWB with students.  Because this blog made with Wordpress, it’s easy!
From the Dashboard, you can add a post in one of three ways.  Click the image here to see [...]

Go to Pageflakes.com and look for the “Sign-up” link at the top of the page.
Fill in the required information:

Click on the Menu button to open the control pane.

Click on whatever “Flakes” (RSS feeds) look interesting to you. You can get rid of them if you don’t like them.

Now it’s time to look for RSS [...]

If you want to participate in the IWB Blog, it’s easy to register.  All you need are:

a username
an email addres you can check immediately
a desire to contribute

Step 1
Simply go to the Register screen and enter a username and your email.  A confirmation message will be sent to you with a yucky password.  If you don’t [...]

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This technology can be produced today for $350.

What do you think it will look like in 15 years?
How do you think it will impact on daily life?
On personal relations?