Archive for the 'Web 2.0' Category

Curriculum Mapping in Melbourne

Author: tom | 25 May 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: Tom's work, Web 2.0

I’m fortunate to be working with ACEL and ASCD as they bring Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Ann Johnson to Australia to continue the introduction of Curriculum Mapping to our schools.  My perspective is that available technologies enable students to “side-step or super-charge” their learning.  The determining factor is a meaningful and individualised curriculum that engages [...]

Web 2 & the Studies of Asia PD

Author: tom | 30 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Tom's work, Web 2.0

Welcome to participants in this two day workshop held at the University of Melbourne and organised by Lindy Stirling, State Advisor, Studies of Asia (see the Studies of Asia Wiki).
Day 1
We will mostly be working from Tom’s CEQ-ALL site.  The outline of Day 1 with Tom  is:

Web 2.0 – Empowering Learning
Beginning with Web 2 Tools  [...]

Google InQuotes & Nov 4

Author: tom | 21 October 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, Web 2.0

One cool Google App that it would be a shame to miss over the next couple weeks is “InQuotes.”  You may have noticed a new band of quotations when searching in Google News for a person in the media buzz.  For example:

Notice that the quotation is current and you can access more quotes from the [...]

Readers: the latest mashup?

Author: tom | 21 September 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Web 2.0

Many would be familiar with Nicholas Carr’s recent article in The Atlantic Monthly.  Although Is Google Making Us Stoopid? really isn’t about Google, Carr bravely admits to the negative impact his many years of working on the Web have had on his attention span.  I’ve often reflected on similar shifts in my work patterns and cautioned [...]

Dipity

Author: tom | 03 September 2008 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, Web 2.0

In case you haven’t tried Dipity, it’s a really cool Web 2 timelining tool. I’ve been waiting for one for a long time, but until now, the interfaces required scripting. Dipity allows for embedding images, links, movies, comments… Heaps! It also has this really slick “Flipbook” interface that imitates Apple’s Coverflow. [...]

Online Learning: Advance or Catch Up & GO!

Author: tom | 26 August 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: Assembly Lyin', Web 2.0

In NC online students can graduate early, or catch up we learn about the North Carolina Virtual Public School program that allows students to take online courses, recover missing credits, earn college credit or get to college faster.  When the courses started last year enrollment began at 4,968 whereas this summer there are nearly 13,000 [...]

Google Street Views Aussie

Author: tom | 13 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Crumbware, Web 2.0

Just like everywhere else it’s debuted, Google’s Street View Maps are creating a stir in Australia (and stir and stir).  Especially fun is the video Google’s made for the Aussie market:

Useful resources on Street View and the buzz are the wikipedia entry and a typical page with top-sightings.  Also the Daily Telegraph has been covering [...]

A “Vision” of Knowledge

Author: tom | 02 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, Flat World Education, Web 2.0

File this post under: “Intriguing ourselves to Death”
Check the cool new mashup of Google Maps, Wikipedia and László Kozma’s programming that he calls WikipediaVision. It’s a great illustration of the changing nature of “knowledge.” WikipediaVision provides relatively realtime markers for who just added content to Wikipedia from where and on what topic. Like the [...]

The “outsourced brain”

Author: tom | 31 October 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Flat World Education, The New WWW, Web 2.0, Wikicademy

David Brooks’ Op-Ed piece “The Outsourced Brain” in the New York Times is a must read for educators. Beginning with a GPS goddess that gently steers the author in the right direction, Brooks goes on to invoke his use of calculators for math (a given), iTunes for musical selection, search engines for memory of [...]

Jimmy Wales Podcast

Author: tom | 22 May 2007 | 2 Comments
Categories: Web 2.0

For those of you who haven’t heard Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame) in person, the ABC radio in Australia provides a podcast of his recent presentation here. Featured on Big Ideas, May 6, 2007, you can listen to the whole program either as streamed RealAudio or download as a podcast. I’ve been working the [...]