This video is excellent. Betsy, a student of my friend Vicki Davis in Georgia, asked students and teachers to describe wikis, blogs, and Web 2.0. Guess who know what the tools were, and gave the best explanations of their uses?
Steve Hargadon emailed to let me know that planning is wrapping up for Classroom 2.0 LIVE, a 2-day workshop being held in San Francisco February 1 & 2. I’ll be presenting How to Be a Wiki Evangelist Within Your Organization on Friday (Feb. 1) afternoon. Steve is passionately committed to a vision of “engaged education” that is emerging [Read more]
Bob LeDrew writes about Kathy Cassidy’s first grade class in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan where the students regularly blog and have a class wiki. Yes, that’s right, six and seven year olds are doing this, and the article Blogging 101 Motivates Students, in the Regina Leader-Post [Read more]
The April newsletter from Wikispaces highlights an excellent example of wiki collaboration between schools at great physical distance from each other - in this case Canada and the United Kingdom. The project focuses on how the countries handle various environmental issues, [Read more]