I love Flickr and Photobucket and the whole idea of online photo sharing. It’s a super way to preserve, organize and share images with family, friends and, yes, strangers. If you’ve never used any sites like this take a look at this simple demonstration from the clever folks at Commoncraft.
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Yale University has begun offering course materials online. Not like MIT’s OpenCourseWare which is a syllabus plus pdf’s of lecture notes and the reading materials. Yale goes the next step and provides all that plus audio and Flash video of the lectures.
This is a great resource for high school upperclassmen who learn at home. Take […]

Hot off the press, so to speak. The folks at Commoncraft have created another cool whiteboard video, a primer on blogging. (3 min.)
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My son really wants a blog of his own. Hmmmm. He wants to be able to write and publish so his friends can read and comment. Sounds like a good way to […]

The Discovery Channel is a great place to go for beautifully produced interactive online resources for science topics like volcanoes and weapons and much more. Discovery’s cable shows are also online at this site including our house’s fave, Mythbusters.
Essay Writing Center has guidelines for, well, essay writing. You’ll find the Basics, Writing Guides, and every […]

Maps of War is a handy site that collects, well, maps. Not basic maps but the best of interactive maps on the web from a variety of sources such as MSNBC, BBC, Los Angeles Times and others. Example maps are History of Religion, WW1 The Western Front, WWII in Europe and many others. Very […]

I’m pretty bullish on Google. I use GMail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader, iGoogle, Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Google Webmaster. Don’t forget Google Toolbar, Google for Your Domain, Google Gadgets, Google Book Search, Google Blog Search, Google Scholar and Google Chat. I’m even disappointed that my cellular phone service here in Anchorage does not […]

eth·nog·ra·phy (ĕth-nŏg’rə-fē)
n. The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures.
Professor Michael Wesch is an assistant professor of anthropology at Kansas State University. I first heard about him through the viral video The Machine is Us/ing Us, which describes the progression of the internet to a vast collaborative Web2.0 environment.
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When I was in school there were only a few ways to tell a story. One could write it to be read by someone, tell it aloud, or perhaps act it out. Movies or recordings were impractical and the equipment was cumbersome or perhaps not available. Well, it is the Web2.0 era and Alan Levine […]

Interested in innovative ways to use Web2.0 tools for teaching? The 2007 K12 Online Conference is a great place to learn what’s happening. Teachers from around the world will be participating in this virtual conference. This year’s conference theme is ‘Playing With Boundaries.’ Sounds appropriate for the subject, doesn’t it?
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Here’s a super resource kids can use as their schoolwork gets a little harder and mom or dad cannot quite remember the difference between compound and complex sentences. Or how about trigonometric identities? Or what is pH? The Alaska State Library offers live online tutoring for Alaska residents. This service is provided by tutor.com.
My friend’s […]