Somehow long before I took this class, I had been getting regular email notices about new and interesting technology articles from a website called SimpleK12. I used to just read them, print them if they were good, or delete them if I didn't really want to keep them for any reason. But today I went poking around and found their blog. The URL for their blog is http://blog.simpleK12.com. It is really a neat site. There are 2 articles/posts that I found of great interest today. One was titled "Is Moodle Secretly Hijacking Your School District's Resources?" As best I understood the article, the author maintains that Moodle as a free "open source software" isn't really free when you count the costs to install, customize, train, and then purchase the supporting hardware you need to run it well. Course I believe the article is on a site that is some kind of company that sells a website service - so it's a bit biased!!!
The second article was titled "Are you REALLY an Ed Tech Leader in Your School/District/State/Country?" It led me to another site of a guy in the United Kingdom (http://www.ictineducation.org) This guy has an interesting project he is dong and blogging about. He calls it "31 Days to Become a Better Ed Tech Leader." He challenges ed tech leaders to give a specific hint to their constituents every day for 31 days. He is modeling examples on his blog of what you might do. There was also an ad on this website for a book titled Amazing Web 2.0 Projects.
Now having done all this poking around, I have to confess I am confused about what's an ordinary website versus what's a blog when I go to some of these sites.
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Diane,
ReplyDeleteI checked out the UK guy. That's an interesting idea to blog about a 31 day project. I often wonder if we in Howards Grove are Tech Leaders. It's one thing to have vision about our tech future in education and another to fund it. I really think we need to look into the Google applications and use them more. It's free!!!!!
Andy
Diane,
ReplyDeleteI wrote a comment and then it didn't post. My computer is beginning to have serious issues.
Anyway, I checked out the UK guy and I thought the idea of his blog was great. Are we in HG ed tech leaders. It is one thing to have a vision about our future and another to pay for it. I truly believe that some of the answers lie in using the Google applications. "Go to the Clouds!" It's Free. Keep up the good work.
Andy
Well Diane, I posted two comments to your blog and neither registered. I am about to throw this computer under the bus.
ReplyDeleteThe guy you reference from the UK is very interesting. I am still excited about the possibility of having one of our teachers do a professional development project and then blog about the specifics. I think that would have great impact on staff if they got to read about the progress as it was happening.
Andy