15th Dec, 2008

Ed Tech Crew 72 – Christmas Special – our titter group

Podcast number 72 – December 15th 2008

[EDTECHCREW072.mp3 Running time: 1 hour 13 mins, size: 50.5 MB]

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Links for tonight’s episode …

Most productive web2.0 tool

Tony – http://diigo.com
Deb – http://deilicious.com
Darren – http://twitter.com , students – google apps
Mark -  http://gliffy.com
Jill -  wikis – http://wikispaces.com
Darren – Paul – Podcasting
Darrel - http://wordpress.org
Chris – Delicious, Wikis, http://voicethread.com, GDocs (and how could I have forgotten Twitter!)

Most collaborative web 2.0 tool
All the above of the most productive
Tony – Google Docs, Forms, presentations
Chris – http://voicethread.com
Darren – http://mindmeister.com, http://textflow.com
Darrel – Twitter example – http://monitter.com
Mark – http://basecamp.com
Deb – http://zoho.com
Most useless web 2.0 tool -

  • Deb – http://www.elfyourself.com
  • Sometimes tools that seem a bit “useless” on their own can be made far more useful thanks to the Embed code that lets them be combined with other things. For example, Slideshare’s usefulness is increased by the fact that it can be embedded into a blog or a wiki.  Twitter or Delicious combined with RSS makes it more powerful.  Embedding YouTube videos, etc and being able to pull resources all into whatever place makes sense adds great value to tools.

Any other online tool that is worthy of a mention …..

Darren – Wordle – word clouds http://www.wordle.net/ & Visual thesarus http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

What will web 3.0 be………….

Chris – The Semantic Web, where the tags and metadata of the web’s resources start to become self organising, so that the information out there is self-aware
Horizon report – http://www.nmc.org/horizon

Internet Censorship Campaign
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442

AngryAussie
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=eXSvzvQC5v0

Chris’ links

Getting Started “I Like Delicious Things: An Introduction to Tagging and Folksonomies”

Darrel links
Wordpress 2.7 blogging platform
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/

Darren’s Typing website

http://play.typeracer.com/

Responses

Hey Boys

Thanks heaps for providing me with countless hours of entertainment and the tonnes of ideas that have made their way into my classrooms or at least my delicous account. It has certainly made my weekly travels between Ballarat and Boort a more enjoyable time.

Thanks for mention in one of your earlier episodes and I certainly look forward to sharing what Im doing with you in 2009. You can read about my first year of teaching and my efforts to introduce ICT into my PE and OE classes at my blog http://mrrobbo.wordpress.com

Twitter accnt – mrrobbo
Skype – robbo6486

Would love to have a chat
Cheers

Thanks for the feedback – we really enjoy the idea of sharing great ideas, resources and links. we look forward to next year and getting you on the show – as both ex PE teachers we are keen to hear about your adventures and activities with ICT and your teaching. Have a wonderful Christmas.

Hello Tony. I still have your card from a Web 2.0 presentation you did at Taylors Lakes Primary School early in 2008. I was excited about the possibilities it offered that evening and then, encouraged by Altan Riffat a Grade 5 teacher at our school, I went ahead and made a Visual Arts Blog. It has led to social networking and a great feeling of connection with teachers around the world via blogging.
I owe you an enormous vote of thanks. I’ll try the podcast,
Have a wonderful New Year.

Hello Yvonne,

Thanks for the comments – it is great to hear a story like yours. I hope 2009 is as good a year as 2008 and that your educational networks continue to grow. If you come across any good ideas, links or stories please send them to us or add them using “edtechcrew” in either diigo or delicious.

Regards

Tony

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