Adult Education and Technology

Zamzar supposedly will convert many different file types, including video. I haven't tried it yet, but I read about it on someone's...

This video is meant to show how inefficient online chat is. It's pretty funny.

This slide show is a harangue about technology infusion. The tone is kind of self-righteous and therefore annoying, but there are some good ...

Click here to get your own player. Steve Gwynne, a VESL teacher in San Diego, did a workshop for a few fellow teachers on using Audacity to ...

Heard about this site today from the Webheads. It's an online brainstorming site, where you can create diagrams, link them together any ...

I found this video on the Webheads Convergence. It shows how teaching would be if the classroom were run like a chat room. It's pretty ...

The Webheads in Action Online Convergence is almost over, happening May 18-20! There were keynotes, blogs, chats, etc. They are using a lot...

We just finished up the third year of the OTAN Technology Integration Mentor Academy. It was a great two days, with presentation by cohort 3...

Larry Ferlazzo pointed out that there are a number of mapping sites, including Google Maps , (Click on My Maps)which has some nice examples ...

UseAMap.com I got an email from a person in Dublin who has created a mapping site, like TinyMap , where you can create your own map, sav...

Branka Marceta gave a wonderful workshop at the California Council on Adult Education conference on blogs and podcasts in adult ed. She ask...

Last week the third annual TIMAC videoconference was held, including about 15 people at 6 sites. None of the schools have access to videocon...

The first day of the California Council on Adult Education was today. I was at the TIMAC (Technology Integration Mentor Academy) panel, and ...

I saw this cartoon on Vicki Davis's CoolCatTeacher blog. It reminded me how different life is for our children (and in some cases, gran...

Larry Ferlazzo passed on the meme asking about what magazines I read, and how my reading habits have changed over the last year. First of a...

What a great conference! I didn't get to go to many presentations because of my own workshops and helping with the Electronic Village, b...

I've been looking for ed tech podcasts to listen to while I'm traveling, at the gym, etc. Branka turned me on to this one, EdTechTal...

Getting ready for my Web 2.0 session with Donna Price on 4/13. I only have 25 minutes, so have to really condense. It feels like so much has...

Here is a message from Margaret Rogers. Margaret is an adult educator and GED specialist in California who is also on the board of COABE. Sh...

There seem to be a lot of these cartoon sites now. This one was quick and easy to use, and you can upload your own photos too.

Ok, I wrote a few days ago about Twitter that I don't get it - why would I want to get updates constantly about what my friends are doi...

Clarissa Ryan had a couple of students who were going back to Korea and asked her how they could keep improving their English. She started r...

Viral video is taking over the world, even the world of teaching! It seems like a few months ago we were talking about Barry Burkett's v...

A few weeks ago I posted about a story in the San Diego paper on ed tech in universities. This morning in the Sacramento paper there is a fr...

Boy, am I getting old! I spent an hour on the phone with my son Larry tonight, getting him to give me the MySpace addresses of his friends s...

My colleague Branka was at TESOL in Seattle, where she recorded a short video of the a presentation in the Electronic Village, and posted i...

Branka sent me the link to this very funny episode of Ask a Ninja!

This 2-page Google cheat sheet lists every Google service, large services owned by Google such as Picasa and Blogger, and how to search for...

I've been having fun preparing for my Web 2.0 presentation at the adult education Technology and Distance Learning Symposium on Feb. 20...

Jeff Carter posted this on his blog . Wikipedia has a good collection of sites containing public domain art, clip art and photos that can be...

Here are the numbers that were included in the article mentioned in the previous post. Educator-related activities: - 78 percent of professo...

I was in San Diego last weekend, and the Sunday paper had a front page article about educational technology and college students. It talks a...

This is not exactly related to technology, but my friend Jan Jarrell recently left adult ed after 15 years of teaching ESOL and being an adm...

I got an email from an art teacher in Pennsylvania who is working with young men in a correctional facility near Harrisburg. She gave them ...

I was randomly selected to be in the Nielson ratings for radio a few weeks ago. It made me realize that I hardly ever listen to the radio an...

The first year Technology Integration Mentors had a great videoconference on Friday. There were a few technical glitches getting all the sit...

Not to be a typical grandma, but I had to post a photo in order to get a photo into my profile, so here it is. This little guy is 16 months ...

I just got back from the COABE conference last night. Under the auspices of ALTN (Adult Learning and Technology Network), we did two pre-con...