Where Have You Been?
This is a question we have been receiving quite a bit lately. Many people have noticed that over the past months, Shawn and I have taken a hiatus from actively posting on the EDBuzz blog. This was at times unintended and at others need break. Our work commitments, personal projects, and a need for personal reflection all played a role in this break. We’re glad to announce that it has come to an end! This is the perfect time to look back at 2010. Several events stand-out in 2010. Here’s a quick walk down memory lane. Shawn’s post Using Facebook to Improve School...
Read MoreThink About This!
In An Open Letter to Educators, Dan Brown challenges educators, as well as our past notions of education. It is bound to spark controversy in some areas. Nevertheless, this should cause each teacher to re-examine the relationship between teacher, student, and material....
Read MoreWeb 2.0 at CCSAC 2010
I’ve just returned from presenting at the California Charter Schools Conference in Sacramento. With so many topics and such diverse backgrounds it was quite enlightening. The interest in Web 2.0 technologies was intense. It seems to be one of the hottest topics and everyone is scrambling to learn how it can improve education. As with any new technology, there are challenges (legal and technical) to its implementation. Additionally, some are more apt to embrace its use while others are more cautious or even try to block them. We will discuss this in depth in future posts. For now,...
Read MoreShould Schools Block Social Networking Sites?
Over the past five years, the response of most school administrators to social networking sites– YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc.– is simply to restrict access on campus. In a recent piece in Slate, Nicholas Bramble argues it’s time to open access to these sites. Rather than worry about the potential, and often times very serious, concerns teachers and site administrators usually have with this technology, Bramble argues schools need to tap “the huge amounts of intellectual and social energy kids devote to social media” and channel it toward promoting...
Read MoreMoodle Versus Other LMS Platforms
Jared Stein from the Utah Education Network compares Moodle with other popular learning management platforms and demonstrates its most important features. Check out Stein’s presentation ( it’s a bit long but a good...
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