Useful Sites (weekly)

digiteen2008 » Virtual World Digital Citizenship for Middle Schoolers This documents students using Google lively to teach other students about digital citizenship. Unobtrusive Collaboration in Google Docs | ICT in my Classroom  Tom Barrett shares about using google docs in his classes and live marking Learning technology teacher development blog: Things You Can Do With Your [...]

Listening to books

I had a few days off work this week, on doctor’s orders. So I had time to read. I have always enjoyed reading. I regard myself as lucky that, in my job, I read a variety of texts from fiction to non-fiction, books, magazines, on-line/hardcopy. Reading, in whatever format, can illuminate your life. It can help [...]

Networked student

I found this thanks to CogDog. It is a simple, really easy to understand video about “connectivism”. Use it to promote network learning in school. The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler’s high school [...]

Wikipedia in Simple English

I hadn’t noticed Simple English Wikipedia until last week. I think that is is a good idea for schools. I know a lot of our students use Wikipedia but the language is often too difficult, especially for the students in the lower levels, those that have specific literacy issues and our ESL (English as a Second [...]

Diigo: Why I use it.

I have been meaning to write a post about Diigo for a while. I have used a number of social bookmarking sites. I use Diigo and Delicious all the time and have also used Google bookmarks and to a lesser degree StumbleUpon and tried Furl for a while. Delicious and Diigo are the two I used almost every day. [...]