ETSC Blogology
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Apple’s Tablet PC for education.
Posted: Jul 27, 2009 by John Kelly (ESD 123)
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I just got done reading The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without content. article by Chris Dawson and was thinking…. How will Apple and others make money in education.
That is the question many have asked and failed to figure out. Unfortunately education is too slow to change to make effective (Read More)
What kids learn when your not looking
Posted: Feb 10, 2009 by John Kelly (ESD 123)
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I found this site and found the survey question responses very interesting (as well as how they were presented using Wordle).
Answers to these five write in questions http://milesberry.net/?p=476
Give examples of things you have learnt using technology that are not related to school work. What is your favourite thing you do (Read More)
What is a cell phone?
Posted: Feb 7, 2009 by Brent Howard (ESD 101)
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It’s so funny that we call these little devices that we all carry around in our pockets cell phones. I’d like to think that “cell phones” are much more than just wireless phones. After all, most of us who have cell phones can use them to check email, listen to music, (Read More)
Web 2.0 the push and the pull of content.
Posted: Feb 3, 2009 by John Kelly (ESD 123)
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Talking about how powerful web 2.0 is in allowing people the ability to push and pull content on the internet. Friedman says when we have this much connectivity “what ever can be done will be done.” Here are a couple of sites create by a teacher by the name of Alan from Alaska (Read More)
Virtual Meetings
Posted: Dec 22, 2008 by Conn McQuinn (Puget Sound ESD)
We’ve been really clobbered with snow the last week, and our offices have either been closed or run late several days. However, two meetings that were scheduled during this period went on as usual, despite the fact that the attendees couldn’t make it. We were using GotoMeeting, an online meeting and screen-sharing system from Citrix. (Read More)
Student Learning and Video Games
Posted: Nov 23, 2008 by John Kelly (ESD 123)
It seems like every time I open an educational journal or read an educational website people are talking about gaming. In case you have not noticed, the multi-billion dollar industry, video gaming, is pretty popular with our kids. While video games seem to be engaging our youth, it seems like we as educators are doing (Read More)
