Thing 22: Ning

This is definitely the age of social networking. It’s been around a long time in the face-to-face format, but now cyberspace is the place to connect, learn, create, and share.
My school has developed a Ning, complete with groups, forums–well, everything you could wing in a Ning. I’m currently in several groups, and I already have [...]

Thing 7C: RSS News!

Vicki Davis, the Cool Cat Teacher, continues to write one of my favorite feeds. On July 17th, she commented on a Google blog article, “Our Googley Advice to Students: Major in Learning.’” Vicki’s response to the Google article was so apt that techLearning had picked it up by July 19th.
All of the above (Google, Cool [...]

Thing 21: Pageflakes

For every 7th grade student who’s ever said, “I couldn’t find it; I lost the URL; I couldn’t remember how to get to it; I couldn’t remember what we were supposed to do, look at, read, create, study, or anything else–there’s Pageflake.
It will take me some time to gather all of the resources that I’d [...]