Posted in Professional Development, Read/Write Web, Web 2.0 on Jun 13th, 2007 No Comments »
I can’t say enough about the wonderful work from MIT’s Henry Jenkins. I ran out to buy his book, Convergence Culture, as soon as it arrived in bookstores last summer and quoted it like crazy in the lit review of my paper. More recently, I found his October 2006 white paper, Confronting the Challenge of [...]
Posted in Professional Development, Web 2.0 on Apr 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
Every time I am working on my dissertation, I find more and more articles, ideas, and examples relating to Web 2.0 that either make me think or that support different aspects of my study (this might also explain why I am making such slooow progress on Chapter 4!) Here are a few finds I wanted to capture [...]
Posted in Professional Development, Web 2.0 on Apr 8th, 2007 No Comments »
I am definitely not a dedicated blogger. Here’s an entry I began about a month ago, saved as a draft, and just discovered as I went to add another entry today. Oh, well, better late than…
Enjoyed many sessions at ICE Conference the last few days. Keynote and spotlight speakers Tim Wilson, Adam Frey, David Pogue [...]
Posted in Read/Write Web, Web 2.0 on Jan 25th, 2007 No Comments »
You MUST check out the thoughtful and well-written paper from Hannah Green and Celia Hannon titled Their Space: Education for a digital generation, inspired by the work of Steven Johnson (Everything Bad is Good for You) and testing the hypothesis that schools need to respond to the way young people are learning ourside the classroom. [...]
Posted in Dissertation Participant Links, Read/Write Web, Web 2.0 on Jan 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
My June posts were written as part of my Chapter 3, or Project Design, submitted at the end of September at my proposal defense for my dissertation committee. All went well, and my study has been approved. I was all set to begin, but my mother took a fall and passed away in the space of ten days [...]
Posted in Educational Blogging, Professional Development, Read/Write Web, Web 2.0 on Jun 5th, 2006 1 Comment »
Web 2.0 or the Read/Write Web? Whatever you call the new participatory web, let’s explore what we know about it, how others are using it and how we might use it to enhance student engagement and learning.
This purpose of this blog is to provide a space for participants in my dissertation study, Naturalizing Digital Immigrants: How Educators [...]
