Edubeacon

I had some success this week.  While participating in one of the CoSN webcast entitled ‘Think before you ban: How classrooms become communities with Web 2.0 technology’ on 16 January (US time) – that was 5.00 am on 17 January Australian time – I recognised the site VoiceThread as one that I’ve been trying to relocate for [...]

It’s been a good week for spreading knowledge on integrating new technologies with many teachers thinking for forward planning for 2008. One of our LOTE teachers whose classes have been communicating with an Italian school via ePals wanted to send a video to finish up the year but didn’t have the video editing skills.  We had a [...]

A recent post on Librarian.net drew my attention to the article Using Wikipedia to extend digital collections by University of Washington librarians, Carolyn Dunford and Ann Lally.  The digital collections in universities, state and public libraries and institutions are valuable resources that can be somewhat inaccessible and hidden.  This article describes how the library is using the high [...]

It says ‘11 craziest ways to browse Flickr photos’ .  Maybe so but some of these are so useful. For instance – Colorpickr - browse by colour to find a balance mix of colourful photos. Spell with Flickr - EduBeacon –  save the code and you have a great banner Cluster your Flickr photos according to their [...]