Coming of Age

An introduction to the NEW worldwide web

Discussion area etc for this book. The first edition was downloaded or read by an estimated 60,000 people. This new edition is going to be much larger. If you're interested in exploring the use of Web 2.0 tools in the classroom, join us!

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Coming of Age at ISSUU

The Web 2.0 brought us an amazing plenty of services and tools. There are moments that we don't really know what to do with it, how can it be useful for our professional or personal activities... In the Education field I'm always exploring the diversity and multiplicity of these tools… Continue

Posted by José Paulo Santos on March 18th, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments (Add)

WiZiQ free Virtual Classroom

WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment for teachers to interact online and teach students in real time. Teachers can also build a profile, keep an availability schedule, and maintain a content library, which is associated with their profiles, by uploadi… Continue

Posted by Mark Cruthers on February 24th, 2008 at 11:54pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Help request: talking heads

What I would really like on my school Moodle learning website would be a talking head where readers can copy and paste text into it and then use it to replay what they have written. The end product might be a cross between voki and vozMe.

As many of my year 7 (7th grade ?) and upwards pupils are literacy challenged the potenti…

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Posted by Jocelyn Chappell on January 26th, 2008 at 9:10am — No Comments (Add)

web 2.0 apps

Have queried with ed consultant colleagues ref web 2.0 apps beingf seen in schools. Most common use seems to be podcasting, with some use of private flickr groups. Interesting to look into level of pupil idependence v teacher control models.

Posted by Rachel Jones on November 17th, 2007 at 2:13pm — 2 Comments (Add)

Blogging

I would like to try and set up a blogging project with my Primary 5 kids. Hopefully we could link it to the school website. Anyone out there got any suggestions on what would be the best way to go about this?

Posted by Ann Browne on October 25th, 2007 at 11:36am — 2 Comments (Add)

Hello Everybody

Have only just discovered Ning and have to say I'm impressed. Still think I prefer my Facebook, but this is light years ahead on mySpace (it is so 20th century).

I have joined to become a contributor to the 'Coming of Age' project. Hopefully I will be able to add some decent comments from my experiences with Moodle here in Aus.

I suppose that is my first post out of the way. Ill hopefully be back with something usefull to say later.

If you are a Moodle user, be sure to… Continue

Posted by Julian Ridden on August 30th, 2007 at 8:52am — No Comments (Add)

It's Elementary!

Join us this Monday at 23:00GMT. Hear a special guest talking about podcasts. Join the conversation by going to this link.
Type the name you want others to see, no password required, and click "Login". Then type in the yellow box asking for where you can hear the live show. Others there will tell you the location of the stream and how to access it. During a show, you will hear live audio and be able to interact in the chat roo… Continue

Posted by Durff on August 13th, 2007 at 5:05am — No Comments (Add)

OK...better late than never!

NECC was absolutely AMAZING, AWESOME, what else can I say??? I was totally blown away - and totally exhausted! I thought I had been to large music education conferences before, but they did not even BEGIN to compare with this! WOW!!! We learned so much while we were there - in the sessions, in the poster sessions, and even in the halls! As David Warlick said, there was learning EVERYWHERE!

As we reflected on what all we did do and see and what we did not manage to do, we have already m…

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Posted by Marsha on July 22nd, 2007 at 4:09am — No Comments (Add)

Learning Networks Research: your input needed

People that have been reading my Learning Conversations blog for a while will know that I'm, very slowly, working through a Masters Degree in elearning.

In this final year I'm focusing on my Dissertation, in which I'm doing some research to find out "the salient characteristics of those people or organisations whose websites form the hubs within a learning network".

I need as many people as possible within…

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Posted by Mark Berthelemy on July 21st, 2007 at 9:39pm — No Comments (Add)

NECC 2007 - My Session

21st-Century Teaching Online: Strategies for Planning, Implementation, and Assessment

Research Paper : Discussion
Christine Greenhow, University of Minnesota

Monday, 6/25/2007, 3:30pm–4:30pm; GWCC B201


Posted by Christine Greenhow on June 23rd, 2007 at 8:07am — No Comments (Add)

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The Educational Technology Site: ICT in Education

As if I didn't have enough to do, now I may have to learn Portuguese

I have discovered a vibrant community, full of passionate people. Unfortunately, they speak Portuguese -- although, having said that, several of them have taken pity on me and translated their comments into English. I joined the Interactic 2.0 community in response to an invitation from its founder, Jos� Paulo Santos, and am pleased I did. Read on for more information about why I joined, and the awkward questions I asked once I'd been accepted. Tongue out

Integrity, journalism and PR

britishmuseum04.jpgI attended a very interesting Westminster Media Forum seminar recently on the subject of journalism and public relations (PR). I will be reporting on that in due course, but in the meantime I wanted to write about these issues in relation to integrity in blogging. It's an article that has been developing in my mind for some weeks now, and the seminar has helped me to put a few of my thoughts in order.

The questions are: how does one maintain one's integrity, and how does one prove that one has done so?


Virtual personas, a chance to win some money, and a new unconference

The virtual personas idea caught my eye, and having investigated it I think it's worth looking at, despite some misgivings. And there's a possibility of winning some money too.

More on the Flip Video

Waterloo StationI was in  London yesterday, and so took the opportunity to put the Flip through a few more paces since my initial article on the subject. I wanted to see how it would cope in a pretty noisy urban environment. There was traffic noise, other people, and occasional gusts of wind.

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Computers in Classrooms June 2008

Here's the latest issue of Computers in Classrooms -- in Word rather than
PDF format because the latter didn't have hyperlinks. Hopefully I will
sort that out for next time!

The main article is about video on demand, plus details of Blippr and book
discounts, and other stuff.

Here is the full list of articles:

  • ICT in Education goes mobile
  • Editorial
  • Tweetmeet.eu by Doug Belshaw
  • Leadership survey
  • Competition
  • Blippr
  • Book discounts
  • Flip Video
  • Video on demand

Enjoy!

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Thanks for visiting! This community site was established to enable people to meet and discuss the development of this resource. In case you're not familiar with it, "Coming of Age: An Introduction to the NEW Worldwide Web" is an ebook (in PDF format) that explains what blogging, podcasting, and other applications are, and how they can be used in the classroom. It features examples such as UK primary schools and special education in the USA. If you haven't read it, go here for your *free* copy:
Coming of Age 1st Edition
(Please note that this is a new URL that takes you straight to the file!)
There's a second edition in production, and that will be coming out soon. The purpose of this site is to swap ideas, chat, meet some of the contributors and readers, and make new connections. And, of course, to discuss where we go from here.

We've now got some new videos here, to supplement Shawn Wheeler's brilliant exposition of RSS (very slick, Shawn!). Plus there' s some discussion going on, eg about the text to have on a special button/badge that Jennifer Wagner is designing for us!

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