educational technology

Quoted: The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: * planning of education projects linked with the development of free content; * development of ...

Quoted: Social capital has recently emerged as an important interdisciplinary research area. It is frequently used as a framework for understanding various social issues in temporal ...

Quoted: How can classroom communication and collaboration be enhanced with the usage of internet blogs?

This is a VoiceThread about using Second Life in in education. Sounds like they're doing some amazing work.

Quoted: Teaching young people how to use digital media to convey their public voices could connect youthful interest in identity exploration and social interaction with direct experiences of civic engagement. Learning to use blogs (“web logs,” web pages that are regularly updated with links and opinion), wikis (web pages that non-programmers can edit easily), podcasts (digital radio productions distributed through the Internet), and digital video as media of self-expression, with an emphasis on “public voice,” should be considered a pillar[--]not just a component[--]of twenty-first-century civic curriculum. Participatory media that enable young people to create as well as consume media are popular among high school and college students. Introducing the use of these media in the context of the public sphere is an appropriate intervention for educators because the rhetoric of democratic participation is not necessarily learnable by self-guided point-and-click experimentation. The participatory characteristics of on...

Special theme issue on Social Networks

Quoted: Computer Mediated Communication: The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Quoted: Heather Carver faced major dilemmas when she became the IT director at Windsor Unified School District in California one year ago. There was no virus ...

Quoted: Welcome to educators, parents and carers everywhere. This is the first and best UK directory to locate quality podcasts from over 350 carefully selected podcast ...

I, of course, am a lover of BlueDot, but this is a nice intro to social bookmarking (even if it does talk about Delicious).

Quoted: This website is maintained for educators interested in the effective use of technology in the classroom. An accompanying column to this website is published in the TechEdge, the Technology and Education Newsletter of the Texas Computer Education Association.