Adult Education and Technology

I just read an article on Larry Ferlazzo's blog about how to get around your district's blocking of YouTube . This is a problem for ...

Hey, can you tell I'm on vacation? I actually have time to read this article by Kevin Kelly in the NY Times about the ubiquity of video ...

The workshop went well. I spent half the time talking about resources on the OTAN Web site, and there are always plenty of people who haven...

There are lots of funny animal videos online. Here is one with a bunch of cat clips. Any one of these could be a writing prompt for a descri...

I'm putting together some examples for a workshop on using video in the classroom. Here is a classic Abbott and Costello using math. May...

I attended this event on Saturday purely as a participant, which was a nice change. I had time to listen and observe more than I have in the...

My colleague Branka Marceta did a presentation to the staff of the Adult Education Office at the CA Dept of Ed the other day on podcasting i...

Just saw a reference to this Web site where you can poll your audience and they can text an answer from their phone, or send it online, and ...

Susan Gaer , a long time TIMAC mentor, sent me this article about her first mentor, who helped her get technology in her classroom and then...

I'm spending this beautiful Sunday afternoon preparing my CASAS Summer Institute workshops. Thinking about wikis, as I link our wiki on...

I believe that adult educators will start using wikis to share information and documents more and more. I already see this happening in the ...

I'm at the COABE conference in St. Louis, and tonight I attended the annual Wikiteer dinner organized by David Rosen , one of the found...

David Warlick posted a picture of his personal learning network on his blog, and then twittered about it and got a bunch of questions and r...

OK, this is amazing. CogDogBlog as I know him (real name Alan Levine)lists 50 Web 2.0 tools you can use to tell a story, sites like BubbleS...

Computer Using Educators ( CUE ) was founded in 1978 to support teachers in using technology effectively in the classroom. It has grown sign...

Just heard about drop.io (pronounced drop-ee-oo), and then started seeing more references to it. It's a Web site where you can create a...

There were a number of things at the CUE conference that I wanted to blog, but between attending sessions, checking out vendors, and trying ...

A fellow adult literacy program in Ontario, AlphaPlus , has a very useful blog with links to many resources for teachers and learners. They...

This post by David Warlick is in answer to the question from a teacher - How do I get started with learning how to use technology? He lists ...

I listened to Merlin Mann's presentation at Mac World about how we manage the constant flow of information and interruptions, how overw...

Aviary is a whole suite of media editing tools - online and free. I have a new computer at home with Vista on it, and I was thinking I woul...

Saw this on Twitter also, a site that searches Flickr and serves up the photos in a seemingly endless stream. I searched for the tag "...

Just saw this on Twitter , a social bookmarking site just for educators . It might be a good way to introduce students to social bookmarking...

Just saw this blog post about the Library of Congress doing a project with Flickr . They are posting thousands of photos that have no known...

Digital storytelling seems to me to be one of the most profoundly useful ways to integrate technology in the classroom. I was reminded of th...

Classroom2.0 on the Ning social networking site is a great place to get answers to ed tech questions, see what other teachers are doing, ma...

Well, I was swept away by the holidays, a trip to New York, and budget matters before that, many budget matters.... so haven't posted fo...

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...