You may have seen this video entitled “Pay Attention” floating around the Web already but this is a final version of a nice little video that talks about who are our students are these days and how we can reach them as educators:
Download Video: Posted by jsdt4 at TeacherTube.com.
Peace (in understanding),
Kevin
This is another one of those waste-your-time-yet-slightly-amusing sites where you answer a series of questions and your answers generate which Star Wars character you most likely resemble. How did I fare?
Apparently, I am very hairy but loyal.
Who are you? Head to the Star Wars Character site and find out.
Peace (in space and beyond),
Kevin
One of the fun podcasts I have in my Bloglines is called One Minute How-to and the host invites folks to come on and discuss something, anything really, in about a minute. The topics are all over the place and really insightful.
This is the brief overview of the site by George Smyth:
The One Minute How-To is your podcast. Each episode features someone just like you who explains how to do something. The catch is that the participant is only given 60 seconds. This means that they need to get right to the point, but isn’t that a good thing?
Here are two that I saved:
Peace (in brevity),
Kevin
Although we, as teachers, were back in school last week, today is the first day for our students to return and I am antsy and nervous/excited as always. I already know some of my students from my role as Student Council advisor and through a claymation summer camp that some of them took with me in July. But still …
I have a few goals for this year:
Peace (with prospects),
Kevin
These two videos are more great intros into two Web 2.0 tools: RSS feeds and Wikis. They are engaging and informative and, well, fun to watch (who can ask for more). They are done by Commoncraft. This post has been sitting in my blog files for months and kept getting bumped for other things so I decided it was time to get it off the floor.
Check the videos out:
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Peace (from my feeds),
Kevin
I was reminded of how fast the Classroom 2.0 social networking site has grown since I climbed aboard the Ning train a few months ago (there were just a few hundred folks then in the network created by Steve H.) when the site was featured on the main Ning Blog Page as an example of an active community.
It said that the Classroom 2.0 site now has more than 2,500 members! Wow! That’s is a lot of exploration and discussion and sharing of resources going on among educators, and there is a wealth of knowledge and experience there. So go ahead, check it out and join the network (if nothing else, you can see what social networking is all about)
Gina Bianchini (one of the Ning developers) had this to say:
I’ve got to believe the classroom is a more fun and productive place when you have teachers who are creatively and passionately bringing social software into the mix. The teachers in Classroom 2.0 are leading by example.
Peace (in networks),
Kevin
So why has “participatory media” become the buzzword at newspapers? ‘Cause they are scared of the real power of the new media. This is a very funny take on responses from newspaper editors and columnists (George Won’t, anyone?) and how they are taking steps to bring more regular Joes and Josephines into the mix (yeah, right).
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Peace (with participation),
Kevin