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A Tantalizing Tabblo

iTeach - Skip Via — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:52 GMT

Over the past three semesters, my education undergraduate students have been working with Panraven, a compelling and interesting web site that allows users to create, publish, and even print online storybooks. We have used Panraven to create sense-of-place...(read more)

Does Technology Produce Antisocial Kids?

iTeach - Skip Via — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:39:09 GMT

There are many times when the reality of a situation seems counterintuitive to an observer. A heavy skier reaches the bottom of a hill more quickly than a lighter skier, even though we think that objects should fall at the same rate or that a heavier...(read more)

The Power of Embedding

iTeach - Skip Via — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:40:40 GMT

As an educator, I find myself posting content on a variety of online sources. In addition to semi-regular blogging, I manage several wikis, maintain a faculty home page, store and publish presentations on Google Docs, and I (somewhat reluctantly) use...(read more)

CoSN Investigates Scandanavian Students’ Success

iTeach - Skip Via — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:34:03 GMT

An interesting follow up to my Feb 29 post (What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?) showed up today from eSchool News. The article, U.S. Educators Seek Lessons from Scandinavia, reported on a visit to Scandinavian schools by the Consortium for School Networking...(read more)

Smithsonian Images Database

iTeach - Skip Via — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:10:34 GMT

Finding images for use in school settings is always an interesting exercise. Aside from the very obvious question of appropriateness of the image, there are questions of copyright, image resolution, and image authenticity. Google image searches and Flickr...(read more)

What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?

iTeach - Skip Via — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:56:06 GMT

That’s not my title. It’s from this article in the Wall Street Journal. Read it right now. There is much food for thought here. Not mentioned in the article is the fact that Finland is the most wired country in the world with very high bandwidth...(read more)

Podcasting in Education

iTeach - Skip Via — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:51:03 GMT

Podcasts are compelling tools for educators from two perspectives. For consumers of information, podcasts can provide portable, repeatable content that can be accessed at any time as often as needed. Study materials, how-to guides, lectures, guest speakers,...(read more)

Digital Consumers

iTeach - Skip Via — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:57:36 GMT

In a recent article on Ars Technia (The “Google generation” not so hot at Googling, after all), Nate Anderson reviewed a study by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee that examined the internet researching habits...(read more)

The Dark Side of Technology

iTeach - Skip Via — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:21:33 GMT

My favorite teaching assignment is a class titled “Teaching with Technology.” In this class, we examine not only how to teach with technology but also why to teach with it. We look at ubiquitous computing environments (”one to one programs”)...(read more)

Why Do American Kids Hate Books?

iTeach - Skip Via — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:58:49 GMT

A recent ComputerWorld article by Mike Elgan–Will Cell Phones Save Books?–provides some thought-provoking ideas about the general decline of reading in the United States. Elgan quotes a recent article from the New Yorker magazine: Americans...(read more)

Macintosh Graphics Software

iTeach - Skip Via — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:27:08 GMT

Macintosh computers ship with an astonishing array of incredibly useful media software. The iLife suite (iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, iTunes and iWeb, GarageBand) provides wonderful tools for creating and publishing media files across a variety of platforms....(read more)

Digital Citizenship

iTeach - Skip Via — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:44:21 GMT

Well, I seem to have managed to get through November without a single post. My bad. I’ve been on the verge a couple of times but other priorities have taken over. It’s in that context that I’m glad that this post from Alec Couros came...(read more)

Listen to Any Good Books Lately?

iTeach - Skip Via — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:42:23 GMT

Today’s post points to a variety of free online audio resources. These resources can provide valuable primary and supplemental tools for teaching and review as well as links to research materials for students. LibriVox LibriVox is the mother-of-all...(read more)

I Hear Voices

iTeach - Skip Via — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:27:04 GMT

Three very interesting web sites came my way in the last few days, all dealing with the spoken word. Each is a fascinating resource with lots of potential for teaching and research. The goal of Historical Voices is “to create a significant, fully...(read more)

The New Sputnik

iTeach - Skip Via — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:02:23 GMT

I suspect many readers of this blog are not old enough to remember Sputnik (1957) and the massive changes that it brought to math and science education in our nation’s K-12 and post-secondary schools. But we are all beneficiaries of those changes....(read more)