Adult Education and Technology

Kids in a flat classroom project collaborated to create this video about Google. Hang in there until you get to the skit about Google and Ya...

My favorite quote so far describing Twitter: Kevin Honeycutt : “ Twitter is my Cracker Jacks: caramel corn, caramel corn...then a PEANUT..th...

You know, games could really teach anything. I'm sure I learned first about capitalism and our economic system from Monopoly. Most games...

According to statistics posted on the BlogWorld conference site , 12 million Americans maintain a blog - is that possible? I guess we all li...

Cool Cat Teacher posted the Kansas State University students' video on her blog, and then posed the following 20 questions. I would de...

Check out this blog, Adult Ed Matters , by an adult education administrator in Southern California, Martha Rankin. I just added her to my bl...

This is about how we find information vs. how we used to find it. We've had a hard time learning that we don't need to think of info...

Just had to post one more example from Claudia Linden. This dragon is a sculpture, not an avatar, created by a teenage girl on teen Second ...

Just got finished listening to and watching a webinar on SecondLife by Claudia Linden, aka Claudia L'Amoreaux who works with the teen gr...

I was just checking out a discussion of widgets for education on Classroom 2.0 , and I found this widget that will add a random mythical Gr...

On the NIFL Technology list today there was a post about online portfolios. This is something we have been talking about in California, but...

My workshop for administrators was interesting. It reminded me that most people don't have time to surf around and look for cool new thi...

Argument with a friend - I say pretty soon we won't need to purchase software, we will be able to create and save all documents online. ...

Does everyone know about Zoho but me? This is every app you might need, all free and online. So why do we need productivity software any mo...

I'm at the ACSA Conference , and working on my Web 2.0 for Administrators workshop that will happen on Friday. I just have to make anot...

Alan Lew has a blog post about Twitter , where he has pulled together a bunch of references and discussions, and suggested various educatio...

I was just starting to get discouraged about the usefulness of Second Life in adult education, but Barry Bakin posted about this video mad...

Did you catch Doonesbury on Sunday? Funny contrast of the generation that is into Second Life, and online life in general, and the generati...

I'm really enjoying being a member of Classroom 2.0 , a community set up by Steve Hargadon , an ed tech person, using Ning . This is a c...

I watched with interest Robert Scoble's video presentation about why Google and similar search engines will eventually be replaced by a...

There's been lots of press recently about this young German guy, Virgil Griffith, who created a program to figure out where anonymous wi...

The Wall Street Journal is talking about parents helping kids with homework compositions even when they are in different states using Googl...

Kristi Reyes, who teaches VESL at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, CA, is also a technology mentor, and does so many creative projects with h...

For some reason this struck me as very funny. Bloggers Blog reports about Oxford University Press monitoring 70,000 blogs to keep track of ...

This Web site surveyed 101 "learning professionals" about their favorite tools, and compiled a list of all those mentioned at leas...

Just came across this video by Lee Lefever explaining social bookmarking in simple terms. It could be a great aid to explaining Delicious a...

I'm in Ann Arbor this week for the Project IDEAL conference on distance learning in adult education. One advantage of traveling is time ...

If you haven't watched this video about MicroSoft's surface computing project, you need to watch it. It's pretty amazing. Not a...

Recently someone asked me in an email about my activities in Second Life. I wish I did have time to hang out in SL and get used to the inter...

OK, this is cool! On SlideFlickr you can create a slideshow of all your Flickr photos, or a group or set in about 5 seconds. All you need i...

I recently received a newsletter reporting on a statewide (CA) survey of teachers that asked what their priorities were for professional dev...

This is an interesting video I got from David Warlick's blog , 2 cents worth. It has a lot of data about how the world is changing, and ...

Reading David Warlick's blog about Bernie Dodge's presentation in Vermont. He was talking about his formula for learning power, att...

This video puts tech support in perspective. Someday we'll be laughing about the days when we needed a lot of tech support for computers...

Have you ever gotten driving directions on MapQuest or another mapping site, and then you didn't want to go the way it told you to go? ...

I'm trying to catch up on email today, and finding some quotes, about technology and about literacy, that I want to keep. Here are 3. Co...

My workshop at the CASAS Summer Institute covered a bunch of things - the OTAN website, the technology integration self-assessment for teach...

Someone sent me this link to Grand Central , an online service that gives you one lifetime phone number that all your phones can ring to. In...

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Barry's blog led me to another adult education blog by Delondra Williams, called Adventures of an Urban Reading Teacher . Delondra teach...

Just got a message from Barry Bakin that he is reviving his Tech4ESL blog. Barry teaches ESL Level 5 in the LA area. I'm happy to see m...

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...