Entries Tagged as 'Global Perspectives'

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

WEB 2.0 Tools

Web 2.o tools are changing the world. If you didn’t believe that we live in a digital world the short video below will demonstrate that you may already be using Web 2.0 tools and not even know it. Many of the networking tools Wiki’s, Blogs social networking services such as Twitter and Second Life [...]

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same

Over 68 years ago educators were grappling with the same issues we are working on today. How to engage students in learning, make learning relevant, how to work collaboratively and be open to change. I’m sure that the video below was out on the edge for it’s time. You can easily substitute some of [...]

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Did You Know?

I was just reviewing a video that was introduced to me at a workshop this summer called “Did You Know?” Truth is that much of the information was surprising. Whenever I feel that we can move slowly about change in education I watch this video. It reminds me how flat the world has become, how [...]

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Open Source Software

Wow this is a great site to try out all types of different software that’s free. The mapping software is particularly interesting. Kudos to the people in London that have put this site together. Try it and tell me what you think.
http://www.osliving.com/

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

NYS Distance Learning and Video Conferencing Workshop

Was lucky enough to participate in a two day NYS Distance Learning  Workshop at Monroe BOCES I. The event, people and technology were incredible. The power of collaborating with eight sites across the state was as comfortable as talking to people across the room. So many good ideas were presented and built upon. A real [...]