With iGoogle going the way of the Dodo bird in November 2013, after researching it, I have decided to go with Netvibes. If you are like me and want to have all of your blogs, newspapers, e-mails, rss feed, Twitter, Facebook, etc. in one place, Netvibes can do it for you. Above is a short how to video I made.
- Professional Learning Communities
I just taught my department about professional learning communities (PLN) last week and would have loved to have had this webpage from InformEd. PLNs are ways that people find new information beyond their school walls. It begins with...
- Google+ Personal Learning Community And Hangouts
Google+ was never slow to find users, but it has taken some time to get people to look at it a lot. It now has more people using it than Twitter. One of the reason for that is the hangouts in which you can meet with nine other people (and...
- Bloom's Taxonomy
Above is an eleven minute video that uses The Andy Griffith Show to explain each of the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. I found it at EducatorsTechnology through a feed I get on my Netvibes account. An amazing explanation of how to use Bloom's...
- Netvibes To Aggregate The Sites You Follow
Tomorrow I am starting my class for teachers who want to better integrate technology into the classroom. One of the first thing I will teach them is how to aggregate all the sites you might want to follow so that you can quickly keep up to date....
- Split Screen For Your Digital Educational Backpack
Well, if you are going to use all of my ideas for your digital backpack this year, you will also need to know how to split your screen. This is essential when you want to read your e-textbook and work on an assignment (or have your students do...