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CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs
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Kidblog.org
For one of my classes I try to have the kids blog regularly. It’s a hard thing to do from a technical point of view. There are very few inexpensive or free sites where I can have the students write … Continue reading
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Playing with Diigo
I signed up with Diigo.com last year. Diigo is a social bookmarking site, very similar to Delicious. Both sites allow you to take the bookmarks that you would normally create in Explorer or Firefox and easily post them on a … Continue reading
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UnConferencing History Education
This morning I read a great post by Joel Ralph of Canada’s National History Society. In his position as the education guy with the History Society, Joel spends a lot of time working with teachers in general, and at conferences in … Continue reading
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Google Buzz
I just checked into my GMail and discovered I now had Google “Buzz.” I’m not yet exactly what it does, but here’s what Google says about it.
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One more vote for Twitter
I’ve been playing with Twitter for a while now, but I got one more concrete demonstration of its power today. I tweeted early today that my students were working on an assignment about Canadian immigration posters from early last century. … Continue reading
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Cool little collaboration tool
Every once in a while I need a way to chat with a group. The other day I was in on a conference call and wanted to chat with two other people but not the rest of the group. I … Continue reading
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Collaborating Musically
Count on Google to push the edge of the envelope. According to their blog, they’re trying to get musicians from all over to form an online orchestra. It appears that video from YouTube will play a big part in getting … Continue reading
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What do you know about Canada?
We spent today’s Social Studies classes with my two sections of Grade 9s coming up with and then choosing questions on what people know and understand about Canada and being Canadian. It was tough to keep 50 Grade 9s on … Continue reading
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