EdTechTalk has been a webcasting community of practice since 2005. We meet here to talk about education, technology, our practice and any thing else that's on our minds as educators.
We are coming to the end of an academic year in which many of us involved with Teachers Teaching Teachers -- with the support of Dave Cormier and Jeff Lebow at WorldBridges.com --have begun two elggs (social networking sites): PersonalLearningSpace.com and YouthVoices.net. PersonalLearningSpace has about 1000 middle school students blogging, and Youth Voices has the same number blogging on the high school level.
Paul Allison, Lee Baber, Chris Sloan, Susan Ettenheim and others have been following Mike Pegg's Google Maps Mania for for some time, and last summer we planned a project with Jared Cosulich's CommunityWalk that we call Entry Points. We gave our map this title because each of the about 200 markers on our map go (or should go) to a profile in the social networks mentioned above.
All fine, but...
We're not happy with how this project has turned out, and in this podcast we review our work with this mapping service... and with maps in general. What is our purpose and what tools would fit best for what we are trying to do?
We are activist teachers willing to take risks and bring the best tools available to our students.
We plan to continue discussing our use of maps -- retrospectively and prospectively.
Do you use Google Maps? Let us know what you are doing. Perhaps you will put us on the right trail for bringing mapping into our social networks in ways that capture our students interest in maps and build our online communities.
Welcome to our show. This week Jen, Vicki , Sharon and Cheryl chat with Stephen Downes. It was a blast! You can view the agenda, the wiki for links and the chat.
Please do NOT rely on the chat for accurate links. In order to make the chat more managable I delete numbers in a wholesale fashion. But the links in the wiki are accurate.
Enjoy and come back next week to hear Brian Crosby from Learning is Messy.
We connected with a very small group tonight, but
that did not stop us from sharing some great sites.During the past week we had 4th graders
experimenting with diigo and 3rd
graders creating internet safety comics with Comic Maker.
He's baaack ... Dave joins us from the road as we discuss recent legal wranglings (DMCA "enforcement", Microsoft patents, internet radio, drunken pirate), explore web annotation and social bookmarking tools, mourn the passing of Skype Test Call Lady #1 and share fun and games.
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