VanishingPoint

While I was off on a different tangent a few weeks back, I had a chance to spend a couple of minutes talking with David Jakes about a couple of different subjects, but one thing that he said that really resonated with me was that teachers needed time to internalize technology before they begin [...]

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After writing Wednesday’s post, I really felt that I needed to break out each of the topics “categories” into a post of their own to both further clarify my ideas and thoughts as well as provide some insight on educational uses both for educators and students.
Looking at “the list” I threw out there, I am [...]

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Yesterday I was attending a grad school class, and during a quick question and answer session I found myself on a small soapbox regarding some web 2.0 technologies. Didn’t mean for it to happen, it just did and everyone in the class appeared quire responsive to the information I was well… spewing out about. [...]

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This post comes on the heels of reading Will’s post, From Access to Information to Access to People… aw, dang…
[side not commentary here.  This is NOT what this post was intended to be about... well it's happened.  Will Richardson is so popular (he has reached 1000 people following him on twitter) he has been [...]

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I recently read a NewsGator Daily article written by Leland Rucker on how the internet has the possibilities of making reading more fun. In the article “Using the Web to Make Reading more Fun” Rucker relates how he had used Google Earth and Google Images to go to all of the places referenced in [...]

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twas three days before Christmas

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Ok, so many of us are not starting to look into the educational potential of uStream as well as incorporating other conversationan methods that we have been using like Skype.  Ryan Gordon figured out a way to do it in the MAC environment, and I will show you how to be able to get Skype [...]

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With little fanfare Zoho has launched its newest application, Zoho Notebook.  At first glance, I was visualy very impressed.  It is clean, bright, and packed with features. Click on the thumbnail to the left and you can see some of its capabilities highlighted.  It is easy to embed video from TeacherTube, Google, Yahoo (I struggled with [...]

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Check this out.  I ran across TeacherTube while reading Eric Langhorst’s Speaking of History blog.  This is really cool… you worried about youtube in your district?  what about a service that teachers can use for the same purposes… getting a message out, and collaborating with other digital educators… welcome Teacher Tube.  I just saw this [...]

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