From hugh at gapinvoid
Fundraising in a Web 2.0 World
What I truly love about the web is when it takes thing that before seemed hard and difficult and all of a sudden makes them easy. Not only that, but when you are trying to get money and funds into a country that is hard to get into to begin with the web allows you access to people on the […]
Using Twitter to get news on earthquake
I had an idea the other day to use Twitter to get news coming directly from the Sichuan Province. I had just learned about twitterlocal.net a website that will track the twitter users coming from a specific location. So I went to twitterlocal and searched for Sichuan. I took a look at the feed and go figure everything was in […]
Microsoft launches World Wide Telescope
Microsoft launched the World Wide Telescope project this week. Watch this: Then go download, play, experiment, send to science teachers, and let the creativity begin!
Adding Album Art to a podcast
I’m writing this to share with others as it took me way to long to find the answer on how to do this. I’ve got two podcasts; On Deck and Gourmet Geeks that are syndicated via iTunes (here and here). I noticed that when you download them to your iPod that the Album Art wasn’t coming through so I did […]
Earthquake in China-We're OK
Just a quick post to let everyone know that we’re doing fine in Shanghai. I just finished talking to EARCOS who is an organization that most international schools belong too. The director there told me he had checked in with all the EARCOS schools in the region and everyone is fine. I have created a quick Google Earth file to […]
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? My version
(Full Disclosure: It comes on right after American Idol on our TV so watch it by default….I’m in China our choices are limited! 🙂 ) 1) Grab your laptop and go to Google.com 2) When a question is asked see how long it takes you to find the answer. 3) Think about all the useless content we teach students 1-5 […]
Learning 2.008 Conference and EdubloggerCon Shanghai
We had a great planning meeting last night looking at the latest numbers for the conference. Not a good sign when we have more presentations then people registered for the conference. 🙁 I’m not to worried at this point, but then again I’m not the one in charge of the money. 🙂 This is why there aren’t many educational conferences […]
Fourth Graders know
What interested me the most is in all six of the classes, as soon as I start talking about technology they all get that look….teachers know the one…..the one of complete attention, of wanting to know and wanting to share what they know.
Web 2.0 Participation
I found this image at Personalize media. It is part of a post that is worth a read as well. Click on the image to enlarge and take some time to think about what they are talking about here. How does this apply to learning? Or does it? Where are our students? How do we get students to move through […]