All Blog Posts Tagged 'collaboration' (64)

UNESCO's Virtual Laboratory Toolkit

The Virtual Laboratory Toolkit provides an extensive set of free person-to-person (P2P) communication tools (audio and video conference, scientific text chat, whiteboard, collaborative authorship, portal and mailing list management, etc.), and also basic advice on person-to-equipment (P2E) tools.

The toolkit is available for download at: http://virtuallab.tu-freiberg.de/

Added by Kevin Chilton on July 24, 2008 at 10:24am — No Comments

Learning something new.

While at NECC and EduBlogger Con, I must say that I was completely overwhelmed by what is going out there in the ed tech space. There are so many leaders in our schools and classrooms who are doing amazing things. Web 2.0 tools are simply tools, but what I learned and observed by the many folks at EduBlogger was something that seemed to be revolutionary. We are truly seeing examples of our classrooms and teaching practices change as a result of teachers embracing new instructional strategies,… Continue

Added by John Costilla on July 16, 2008 at 2:55pm — No Comments

Link to recent posts: Cognitive Bursts, Use of digital media with students with autism spectrum disorders, etc.

Here are some links to a few of my more recent blog posts:

New Interactive Technology: Tag Galaxy, Windows 7, PaperVision 3D, Microsoft Surface, Touch Screens, and Blog Posts Revisited.

Cognitive Bursts; Sense of Self: Assisting young people with autism spectrum disorders… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on July 9, 2008 at 9:08am — No Comments

Creating networks of purpose

I attended an eChicago conference last Friday where one of the presentations showed how youth in Skokie, Illinois are learning to use technology to become voices and news broadcasters for their community. Is this a school based activity? No. It's a library based activity.

This is an example of how teens in middle school and high school can learn to use art, video, computers, essays, blogs, theater and public speaking to get the attention of adults and other students, and to focus… Continue

Added by Daniel Bassill on April 8, 2008 at 2:39pm — 2 Comments