ejourneys

Being an absolute beginner at web 2.0 until June, 2007, I am going to reflect on the 10 web 2.0 sites that I have enjoyed using most this year. I am following the lead of my friend Chrissy, Teaching Sagitarrian who helped start me on this amazing journey. See her favourite 5 web 2.0 in the classroom for 2007. 
Mine are [...]

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In 2007, each IT class was given a different project for using web 2.0 The grade 3/4 class was one of our school’s larger ones with 30 students initially. This meant the computer lab overflowed and sharing had to occur. Anyway, after searching for a suitable global project, I applied to join the kinzexchange project [...]

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Skype has opened up a whole new world – cyber and international. Skype is VOiP (Voice over internet protocol) which allows (to put very simply) two computers to ring each other like a telephone. Such calls are then free, except for the cost of the download time.
We have two sons who live in London and skype allows [...]

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Well, it has been a long time since I have made an entry in my blog. The grade 6 podcasts have mostly been converted to both wmv and mp4 format. However, having completed the enhanced podcasts, it was then time to upload our digital movies for sharing with both Las Vegas and Korea.
The Middle Faiss [...]

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What a great day we had today! Even though we have used skype briefly with classes and a school from NZ, and our grade 5 teacher and our LOTE teacher use it,  our first big trial in the classroom for me came today when we introduced our classes to students in Korea.Each class was as [...]

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