CoSN
Island-Hopping and Mushing via Web 2.0
A few schools are beginning to tap Web 2.0 tools for multimedia communication to give their students vivid educational experiences.
Educators in Ventura County, in Southern California, and the Bering Straits district, in Alaska, are both working in this vein, though with different twists.
Ventura County has partnered with the National Park Service to connect students to [...]
Gluttons for Web 2.0
The Consortium for School Networking conference, in Austin, has been the scene of two interesting days of near-constant discussion about Twitter, Facebook, blogging, podcasting, Wikipedia, open content, curriculum wikis, online video games, and smartphones–and how those Web 2.0 tools fit together with the traditional school staples of assessment, curriculum, student privacy and safety, budgets, and [...]
Ed-Tech Leaders Convene in Austin
This week I am in Austin, Texas, at the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking, a key group based in Washington, with a national membership of school administrators who make decisions about technology, teacher-leaders, university professors and researchers, vendors, and various consultants and government officials.
CoSN has a quality program each year, and the [...]
