Sites that Caught My Eye Today 07/05/2008

• Plurk Basics

  TV tutorial about plurk basics. I must say, I do like the plurk page.

  tags: plurk, edu_newapp, education

• UChannel - Students and Electronic Media: Teaching in the Technological Age

  Resources from the princeton Future of Education Conference including videos and audio.

  tags: education, bestpractices, professionaldevelopment

• Wikinomics and The Cool Cat Teacher | Make IT Happen

  I love how this teacher is truly emerging into the blogosphere, after a comment from me, and pinging technorati with thoughts, this teacher's post has received noticed from the bloggers at the Wikinomics blog. This teacher is doing an excellent job with blogging and we're only seeing the beginning.

  tags: education, wiki, wikinomics, edu_news

• Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Wikinomics in the Blogosphere

  This incredible compliment from the people at wikinomics means a lot.

  tags: education, wiki, wikinomics

• Web 2.0 Smack Down! | BlogWalker

  Blogwalker's notes on Web 2.0 smackdown -- another set of great notes.

  tags: web2, education

• Almost Live from the Web 2.0 Smackdown - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on School Library Journal

  Web 2.0 smackdown notes from joyce valenza - she did a great transcription of notes from this session. I love the photo of the web 2 keychain!

  tags: education, edu_newapp

• Twitter / pingfm

  You can find the most recent "beta codes" from pingfm on their twitter statuses. This is how I got in.

  tags: education, geeks4, edu_newapp

• borderlinetheory.com » Updated: Ping.FM Tutorial

  I've been spending some time on the various microblogging places and really don't have time to go to all of them, so now, I've used pingfm to update them all. (There is a place to go to get the most recent invite beta code, that will be my next link.) This great tutorial got me started on pingfm so that it will update all of the services I use. Very nice tutorial.

  tags: education, geeks4, edu_newapp

• A Library By Any Other Name: 371.3 NECC08: Wonderful World of Wikis

  Notes on the wiki presentation that I did with Adam Frey -- I'm saving all of these and also want to link to those who took the time to link and write about the sessions that I was a part of. Thank you for such a great outline!

  tags: education, necc2008, wiki, technology

• US teacher is suspended for letting pupils read bestseller | News | guardian.co.uk Books

  This teacher was banned from using the freedom writers diary in her classroom and now has been suspended. I don't know all of the facts, however, I have to wonder why the school sent her to a Freedom Writers workshop and then wouldn't let her use the book.
  
  I do respect the desire to limit the profanity -- I wish that perhaps there was a explitive-free version of the book to handle this issue, however, it looks like this entire issue was mishandled. It grieves me as more issues like this seem to be happening in schools. I haven't read this book to have my own opinion, but would love to hear from some of you who have.

  tags: education, edu_news