by Powerful Learning Practice | Jan 14, 2010 | Open Academy Sessions, Virtual Institutes
Wikis are Web 2.0 tool which can connect teachers and students in powerful ways. Come to hear examples and learn the methodology behind this collaborative web 2.0 tool. The ability to easily publish to the Internet has opened up all sorts of new possibilities for...
by Powerful Learning Practice | Jan 7, 2010 | Open Academy Sessions, Virtual Institutes
The almost limitless potential of Weblogs as a teaching tool is fostering an explosion of innovative projects, partnerships and techniques at every level of education from elementary school to graduate programs. The ease with which Weblogs allow for publishing of...
by Powerful Learning Practice | Dec 10, 2009 | Open Academy Sessions, Virtual Institutes
Google Applications is a broad solution that schools can use to bring communication and collaboration tools to the entire academic community for free. Students, teachers and staff can share ideas more quickly and get things done more effectively when they have access...
by Powerful Learning Practice | Dec 3, 2009 | Open Academy Sessions, Virtual Institutes
Why on earth wouldn’t you go 1-to-1? A computer in the hands of every student facilitates the evolution of curriculum to a student-centered, student-engaging, socially-collaborative curriculum. Having been 1-to-1 for 16 months, my faculty would say teaching...
by Powerful Learning Practice | Nov 19, 2009 | Open Academy Sessions, Virtual Institutes
Each year the The Horizon Report is published as a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN). The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project – a long-running...
by Powerful Learning Practice | Nov 12, 2009 | Open Academy Sessions, Virtual Institutes
Everyone has stories. Stories come from a variety of places, from a person’s past, from their family and school, and from their imagination. Digital storytelling is the process of capturing those stories, first by writing, and then by making the story come alive...