I talked with a marketing person at ePals yesterday, and he was sharing the flood of interest they were getting at conferences regarding their new classroom blogging tool. It seems, that through all of the MySpace sensationalism, people are recognizing that there is something to this new read/write web that is drawing the attention of our students — and isn’t that what we try to do in our classrooms?
I’m in Chapel Hill, North Carolina introducing educators to blogging, podcasting, and a host of other Web 2.0 tools. This is the first day of an institute for these teachers. My job is to share with them the what and the why of the new web, and we will be utilizing a number of Web 2.0 applications as part of the day’s workshop. Topics will include blogging, podcasting, wikis, RSS, social bookmarks, aggregators, and social media.
You’ll find the online wiki handouts at:
In trying to find a picture for this entry in flickr’s creative commons library, the only images I could find were night time, babies, people on decks, people dressed in outlandish costumes, and people at protests. Says a lot.
Marshall McLuan was right 40 years ago. We are creating a Global Village with technology he could not have imagined.