Dean Shareski has posted a neat photo project entitled Photo Essay…A Day in the Life Remix - Ideas and thoughts from an EdTech. Basically, at the top of the hour, what ever he is looking at he takes a picture.
This could easily be expanded to the classroom, maybe the student of the day takes the camera the entire day at school, or maybe students just draw and write what they are doing at the top of the hour.
I’ve been using Bloglines for about 2 weeks now, and it has made me so much more efficient at reading websites. No longer do I visit several bookmarks to see if things have changed, I can do it all at once.
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Wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia, maintains a page dedicated to corrections in Wikipedia that are not yet corrected in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Wikipedia does recognize its flaws though:
Some have claimed that Wikipedia (or any open media project) can never be as “authoritative” as EB (and other credentialed commercial projects). Many would argue that —at present —EB is more “complete and accurate” than Wikipedia. Moreover, for every error in EB noted here, there are likely dozens of mistakes just as egregious in Wikipedia.
Welcome to my new site for teachers! I couldn’t think of a snappy name, so it’s stuck with RyanCollins.org. I have several goals for the site:
The website is just in it’s birthing stages, but the forums are functioning and I’ll have posts up soon. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed for the posts, and create your account in the forums. Thank you for stopping by!