If you use Google Reader as your RSS Aggregator, you might or might not be familiar with the “Starred Items” “Shared Items” feature.
Although I neglect these two features sometimes, when it is hard enough to get though all my my feeds anyway, they have grown on me and I am using them more and more.

The [...]

A picture is worth a thousand words… A thousand words can tell a story…
Using words as a visual give a different impression than text alone. Visuals can allow us to “see” a concept or, a relationship that text alone might not make apparent. It can tell a visual story of words, keywords, thoughts, text, and [...]

Muchísimas gracias a la dirección de la Goethe Schule en Buenos Aires, Argentina por darme la oportunidad de hablar con ellos acerca de la integración de tecnología y la alfabetización en el siglo XXI.
Gracias a Verónica D. y Heidi M. por organizar ese encuentro. Ich freue mich schon auf gemeinsame Projekte!

¿Qué es un Instructional Technologist?

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As many of you know, who follow me on Langwitches, I am working on a Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators.
I will be using Wordle to create a storytelling cloud with words that come to mind when you think what Digital Storytelling means to or for you.
Please contribute keywords, that come to YOUR mind when you [...]

Need a laugh? Check out this Skype Laugher Chain and if inclined, add you laughter to the chain.

Laughter is a universal language
It’s no accident that LOL (Laugh Out Loud) is one of the most popular acronyms on the web – we all love to communicate, to share and feel part of a community. Laughter brings [...]

I have decided to introduce Scatch in my upcoming TechCamp.
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As [...]

I am getting ready to teach a one week-three hour summer technology camp next week at my elementary school.
My objective for this camp is to allow the campers (incoming 4th-6th Graders) to have time to PLAY, time to EXPLORE, time to MAKE MISTAKES and time to FIGURE IT OUT, either by themselves or with each [...]

Yesterday, during our last technology professional development workshop of the year, I introduced a group of our elementary school faculty to the concept of a custom Google Search Engine. Everyone present was invited to be a collaborator and created (if they did not have one) or signed into their google account. I created a step-by-step [...]

Right after I published the "Tidbits of Information " post, I receive a Twitter from ehelfant

So, I checked into creating a group twitter account. I guess there are several sites out there. I chose GroupTweet , since Liz Davis recently created a group called Edutweets .
Set up was pretty simple. I created a new Twitter [...]

As of today my VoiceThread "What could it mean?" has had almost 1000 views and has drawn 357 voices. These voices are commenting on images from different countries, depicting a unique traditions, typical customs, distinctive perspectives, routines, habits and practices. Together they are painting a story how people from different countries and cultures can interpret [...]