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Entries from December 2006

iSafe Pros and Cons

December 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment

It is a requirement to teach an iSafe component for any edtech course we offer. I think it is wise and important to include an internet safety component for our courses, but I find some issues with the choice of iSafe as the sole program for delivering this instruction. Recently I took the personal safety [...]

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Tags: Professional Development

Using Pageflakes for Digital Storytelling

December 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Will Richarson recently posted a compelling example of how to use RSS in the classroom in his thoughtful Pageflakes example of the crisis in Darfur. Pageflakesis a tool for pulling RSS feeds from many different sources into one place. Read how Will pulled al the feeds together in his blog post entitled, “Using Pageflakes as [...]

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Tags: Podcasts

Creative Commons – “Wanna Work Together?”

December 10th, 2006 · No Comments

I came across this video that explains Creative Commons so well, I had to link to it. I’ve seen other videos from the site, but the Wanna Work Together? video is the best yet I’ve seen for teachers and students who want to work collaboratively. Great ideas for on guidelines for our upcoming “Our Heroes” [...]

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Tags: Podcasts