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Jàson P
My (awesome) boss has implemented a new policy of "productive play" whereby we're encouraged to spend a couple hours a week tinkering or experimenting with a new technology (but doesn't have to be technology as such). We're to email her from time to time with reports and ideas on how we might try these things for instruction.
What should I start with? Go nuts, bearing in mind that I have zero budget. - Jàson P
What kind of things are you already using? maybe that'll give us an idea of where to point - Abigail
i am totally jealous of you for having an awesome boss. ;P - Christa
Yeah, it's hard to know what's "new" to you. If it were me, I'd go into my del.icio.us account and look for my "trythis" tag. Also, +1 your boss. - Catherine Pellegrino
Oh, that's true -- you guys don't know what we do now. Well, let's see, I've got a fledgling podcast up and going. We have video tutorials and don't do as much with them as I think we should, but I don't know where to take them next. We have a blog that as far as I know we don't use for instruction at all. That's a couple of quickies off the top of my head. Catherine, I like the trythis tag idea! I'll check yours out and start my own. - Jàson P
Skype reference, text reference, clickers, mobile apps. And, you know, stuff. Wahoooo! - marthalib, search ninja
We've asked for money for clickers and got turned down! We were very disappointed. But we can check out a set from our faculty media lab. That's a good one. - Jàson P
concept mapping apps - marthalib, search ninja
Catherine, what's your delicious handle please? - Jàson P
Heh. I thought that might come up. It's http://delicious.com/capelleg, just to keep you on your toes. Also, I'd definitely look into clickers. I so want a set for our classroom! - Catherine Pellegrino
I also agree with catherine...use my http://delicious.com/baldgee... for some ideas. - ♫Geek in the 410♫
Whoa. Baldgeek's got me totally beat. (To be fair, I haven't added anything to http://delicious.com/capelle... in ages.) - Catherine Pellegrino
Jumping on the bandwagon, here is my Diigo list of "tools": http://www.diigo.com/user... - Dana Longley
thank you. we all help each other, Catherine. - ♫Geek in the 410♫
This stuff is totally mine-able for months worth of ideas, you guys. Thanks so much! - Jàson P
Wikis, online polls? I'd play with different video techniques a bit too - video tutorials seem like really useful things. Stop-motion, greenscreen...? - Deborah Fitchett
I've never created or been a member of a group based delicious account. Would it be possible to feed a bunch of LSW members delicious feeds into an LSW delicious account? Does one already exist, and I just don't know it? Mine is http://delicious.com/jokrausdu . - Just Joe
Joe - you can definitely do that with Diigo - they have a group option and every time you bookmark something you have the option to share it with any groups you belong to. We have such groups for our SUNYLA library instruction and emerging technologies in library instruction committees (http://groups.diigo.com/groups...) and they work pretty well. - Dana Longley
If you were turned down funding to buy clickers, There are a couple of services that will let you do text message polling. I thought that those might have some application in the classroom, since so many students have cell phones anyway. - Bonnie Swoger
Your boss IS awesome for this. Our teachers would love this. Of course, we have the small problem of having a good bit of Web2.0 blocked. - Susan