View from HS-28

I wrote this on a separate blog.  I’m bouncing it around a few places because I think it unifies a few aspects of my life and discussions I’ve had in each place.
At work (Paideia) we recently had a seminar/lecture led by <a href=”http://novemberlearning.com/”>Dr. Alan November</a> regarding the use of the internet/technology/your mom in the classroom. [...]

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I didn’t see a section asking for a post of “Task 12.”  I feel like I do a good job advocating for new technology tools.
As far as the class goes, it was a good class.  I learned some things and most importantly I was pushed to play with things.  I feel that often people don’t [...]

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I feel like this is cheating a bit, but I’m going to cite the web2.0 uses in my classroom as the stuff I do already.  That would be the following:
Use of Vimeo (vimeo.com) to publish videos of classroom activity
Use of Blogger (blogger.com) to create a blog (http://paideiaphysics.blogspot.com/) for students to post article reviews and comments
Use of [...]

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I’ve tried to write this post 3 times now, but each time the page hangs up when I try to insert a link.  So screw links for this page, I’m just going to drop them in-text and force you to copy and paste.
This is supposed to be about apps, and I found some good apps [...]

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I’m still not really feeling Delicious.  I think I understand it’s appeal, and I think it would we wicked awesome in a social studies class as a way to aggregate multiple student searches.  If I was studying the civil war, then I would tell my kids to go learn about the civil war online, add [...]

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So Dave Fegemann told me about the pisci wiki when I first started talking to him.  He gave me the idea of taking my normal lab reports and making them wiki-labs.  I’ve used them once so far, and they are awesome.  There have been some small hiccups, but not only does it allow me to avoid [...]

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Well, I’ve tried a few of the apps on the list and a few more.  There are so many possibilities out there, but there are seldom ones that are exactly what I am looking for.  I found Webspiration, which provides an interesting option for collaboratively grouping things or creating links between things.  If I taught [...]

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I normally scour the following feeds: Next-Gin.biz, Penny-Arcade [Explicit!], and Ultimate Coaching and Strategy.  I also found the cool feature where I add the feeds that my friends decide to share.  It is a pretty cool system for sending useful tid-bits without using email.

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So . . . does this remind anyone of old newsgroups.  I guess we call them RSS feeds now.  
 
I’ve dabbles with RSS feeds before.  My class blog even had an RSS feed, but it was never really worth it.  In they end I think they are potentially very useful for being able to aggregate [...]

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After using writeboard I wrote the following:
 

PiSciTest

we’re going to be testing if this works as a method for writing collaborative lab reports. I’m a little worried about losing this file’s location, so I should send my self an email or something.
I thought the first article seemed a little silly, or perhaps pointless. It painted a picture [...]

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