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Adopting Blogfolios in Teacher Education

Posted in Blog, Educational Technology, Web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , on April 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Performance-based portfolios have increasingly become popular in education. They offer numerous benefits: a) fostering self-assessment and reflection, b) providing personal satisfaction and renewal, c) providing tools for empowerment, d) promoting collaboration, and e) offering a holistic approach to assessment. Many educators believe that performance-based portfolios are essential part of teacher education programs. [...]

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Footnote

Posted in Educational Technology, Publishing, Social Networking, Technology Integration, Web 2.0, tagged , , , , , on April 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Footnote.com is a unique place where original historical documents are combined with social networking to create an interesting experience involving the stories of the past. The Footnote.com collections feature documents relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents.
Footnote.com is a great online repository for original documents [...]

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ADrive Offers 50GB of Online Storage For Free

Posted in Software Tools, Web 2.0, tagged , , , , on April 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »

For those of you who are teachers and students and have limited disk space to keep all of your files (music, video, photos, documents, and other files) on your computer or server, ADrive could me your best solution.  You can access to your stored files from anywhere you have Internet access, at any time. The [...]

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Social Networking Research in UK

Posted in Web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Two weeks ago, the Office of Communications in the U.K. published an 80-page report, Social Networking: A quantitative and qualitative research report into attitudes, behaviours and use. The report draws on numerous qualitative and quantitative research studies conducted in UK in 2007. Here are some interesting findings from the report:

Social networking sites [...]

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Yudu Freedom

Posted in Publishing, Web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , on April 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Yudu Freedom is a new on-demand publishing service that lets you turn a PDF file into a live, Flash-based Web page within minutes. Like Scribd, Yudu Freedom allows you to publish documents in an interactive, page-turning digital format and host them online at no cost. It is fast and simple to use Yudu [...]

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