Teens use technology to party in strangers' pools
Tech savvy teens are using Google Earthâs splendidly clear aerial shots of the UK to launch a summertime craze â pool crashing.
web2teacher
My name is Paul Reid and I'm interested in social software.
This tumblog is a my way of collating web2.0 in education links and digital bitz as I navigate my way through information overload.I'm particularly interested in the question of how web2.0 tools can add value to the knowledge generated by the digital natives we have in our industrial age educational institutions.
I believe user engagement, connectivism and critical literacy will become central to the efficacy of curriculum ICT integration. And in 21C classrooms, infrastructure simplicity and access to integrated content production are essential to this aim.
In my spare time I run a couple of educational group blogs called Digital Chalkie and AusMacEd as a means to link with fellow educators interested in empowering their students through the use of ICTs.
This tumblog is an aggregator without a comment function so you'd need a tumblog to engage in dialogue about this content. Please contact me here if you'd like to speak with me about all things web2.0 in education.
An Invitation to Produce, Consume, Analyze: Social Media and Action Research
It seems the potential to organise, act, and solve problems has never been greater given new social media applications. And given the relative trajectory of social media adoption across the globe,…
UK Web Focus - What If We're Wrong?
Brian Kelly gave a 60 minute talk on “What If We’re Wrong? Developing A Sustainable Approach to the Use of Web 2.0” at an online JISC Emerge conference on Digital Communities
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Useful Bookmarklets
Some of the best bookmarklets available, which can help you search and email, download videos, and work out some of the web’s kinks. Annotated link…
Turn Google Docs Into an RSS Reader and Feed Aggregator
This tutorial shows how to use a Google Docs spreadsheet as an RSS Feed reader (see example). You can aggregate news feeds from different sources into one spreadsheet (similar to alltop or popurls or…
100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home
Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here…
gmapsmania
100 Things to do with Google Maps Mashups
QUT | study says "Schools' Web 2.0 ban contributes to social exclusion"
Blocking students’ use of Web 2.0 sites - blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and chat - at school could exclude them from valuable educational opportunities as well as heighten social exclusion, particularly…
Flickr tools | mentalaxis
A collection of tools for Flickr.com
YouTube - Progressive Education in the 1940s
This video presents a positive view of progressive education although it begins with a parent complaining that children are not learning the fundamentals.
TWITTER TOOLBOX: 60+ Twitter Tools
A broad variety here: Share any RSS feed on Twitter, and have new RSS items automatically be tweeted.
When Wikipedia Is the Assignment
How Wikipedia can be marshaled as a central component of a courseâs syllabus rather than viewed as a resource to be banned or reluctantly tolerated.
5 Great Ways to Contribute to Social Media - ReadWriteWeb
Social media can be loosely defined as the movement of community contributions in an effort to help one another. There’s plenty of giving, taking, promoting, and marketing.