The K24x7 blog is intended as a place for anyone interested in applications of technology to teaching and learning to explore ideas and options. It is one component of a larger system - Knowledge 24x7 - created using free tools for generating audio, video, and 3-D systems to build a Virtual Learning Environment for use at home or in school.
Did you ever want a free web site for your class that includes all thise digital bells-and-whistles, such as podcasts, blogs, calendars, FAQs, scrolling news, hot links, polls, dynamic pages, groups, folders, public and private access control, a showcase for student work, student logins you create, private messaging, and more - all free? No kidding, and no special technical skills are required. EdWeb 2.0 offers all of this. Click the image for a more readable version.
Free sites are available to teachers willing to offer the sale of mousepads created from images used on their sites to parents and others.To learn more about this innovative approach to making Web 2.0 tools readily accessible to teachers and students at a cost that can't be beat, view the same pages on their web site. School-wide versions available at a reasonable cost, too, with or withought the mouspad sale feature which schools can use as a fund raiser.
I once published an essay entitled, “What Language Do You Speak?” The point of the essay was that each of us speaks a unique language based on our demographic characteristics, education, and experience. So, I am a 70+-year old, Wharton-school trained graduate, B.S. in Economics, plus 30 graduate credits in Quantitative Economics, who returned to graduate school after 20 years of higher ed teaching and administration, to earn a doctorate in education and begin a second and third career, initially in technology in the private sector, than as a K-12 educator, eventually as a superintendent of schools and finally a COO/CFO for a large non-profit publisher and professional development organization, Along the way, I spent ten years in experiential education, started four alternative schools, and edited a compendium of best practices in K-12 education. I’ve been a computer user since 1953, and involved in online learning and instructional technology for more than 30 years.
Every once in a while you stumble across something so funky that you just have to try it. I can't believe I spent nearly an hour tweaking the image, adding a background photo (my house), and recording a message.
Voki is free; a much more powerful commercial version is found at SitePal
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