Adult Education and Technology

Steve Hargadon interviewed Sir Ken Robinson last night on Elluminate, with over 400 people (mostly educators) in attendance from all over ...

Last year I was the lonely tweeter at the COABE conference. This year, and the combined COABE/Proliteracy conference there were at least 10 ...

Next year, 2010-11, is not looking good for adult education in California. This is the second year that adult education has been in Tier 3 o...

Here are three funding opportunities I learned about at the COABE/Proliteracy conference in Chicago: 1. Adult Numeracy Instruction Professio...

Just listened to Steve Hargadon interview Daniel Pink about his new book, Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us . There were o...

An example of what can be done with media - wow!

I attended this event at Virginia Commonwealth University a couple of weeks ago, convening a group of adult education practitioners and rese...

Dennis Porter sent me this amazing video about work happening at MIT to merge computing with the physical world. It's quite mind boggli...

Can't resist this one - to the tune of Candle in the Wind. Thank you, Gina Lobacarro, for posting this on the New Digital World Ning si...

Mlearning seems to be the topic that is getting the focus of ed tech attention these days. Cell phones in the classroom, or no cell phones i...

Information from an mLearning summit in Zambia. A link from the Teachers Without Borders Diigo group sent me to a number of sites abou...

California has created an ABE Initiative, supporting adult education programs to look at different ways to support Adult Basic Skills studen...

This has nothing to do with technology, really, but did you know that Google is now using goats to keep their grass mowed ? That's prett...

I want to write about the COABE conference , (national adult education conference) but for now, I'm just going to comment that there was...

I'm at the CATESOL conference , and it's been a mixture of wonderful conversations and depressing realizations; wonderful because of...

I didn't go to TESOL this year, but got a partial experience of it through blog posts, tweets, and photos people posted on FaceBook. Her...

I found this video by following Stephen Downes on Facebook. It is a 20 minute talk to educators about how to think about Web 2.0, and how to...

You can now see video of Steve Hargadon's presentation at the Symposium , or you can listen to a similar presentation here. This is an ...

I happened upon this presentation AFTER giving 4 workshops at the Technology and Distance Learning Symposium. Good information to remember. ...

This is a session that I didn't get to attend, but they created a wonderful wiki page with descriptions of a variety of video sites, wh...

The first day of the Technology and Distance Learning Symposium went well, despite rain and budget cuts of major proportions. Those who show...

This page lists 21 ways to use new technologies in the classroom to engage learners and make learning more interactive and self-directed. Ea...

Wow, what a momentous day that was! The photos posted by the Boston Globe are really wonderful, showing how people were engaged all over th...

Saw this on Twitter, and it supports a conversation at the CAEAA conference this afternoon about what implications changing technology has f...

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...