Our 21st century world continues to grow with the collaborative thinking of Mass Innovation, rather than Mass Consumption. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

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Earlier today I had a meeting at MCC about a multimodal English 101 course I am developing, and we’re building this course specifically in Web 2.0. This is a Freshman Composition course… not necessarily a writing course. It doesn’t say it’s a writing course, and even though we will write in the class, it’s more [...]

Posted in cis237, eng101, essays, rhetoric, web2.0

This rocks. This woman did the work for me, and she did it almost a year ago. Where’ve you been all my life? Liz B Davis made this Del.icio.us tutorial, and I require most of my classes to use this site. I would say less than half the students stick with it, but it’s definitely [...]

Posted in gadgets, tutorials, video, Video Captures, web2.0

Work showed this video in an in-service, and I am eager to really move forward with 21st century education, but how do we drag along all the conservative, old-school techophobes?

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We always make the kids put away phones, ipods, etc… but should we? Today in school the kids were studying for the rhetorical schemes quiz, and most had printed pages from Google docs where we had the definitions saved, and some had nothing, but this one kid was sitting in the back of the room [...]

Posted in google docs, iphone, rhetoric, student2.0, technology, web2.0

The other evening I participated in a monthly Cyber Salon, which is a group of like minded technophiles who teach in secondary schools and higher education. This meeting held up north included Alan, Shelley, Biray, Alisa and me. I walked into this swanky sports grill after 5pm on a Friday to find these four with [...]

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