Over the summer I worked on creating a technology wiki, in part, for my Virginia Tech Project and Report class, but also for the faculty that I work with. The wiki can be found here: H.B. Whitehorne Technology Wiki. Well, I have finally completed the wiki, after putting in some 150+ hours, and I could not be happier. The wiki was designed with all intents and purposes to be a resource for my fellow teachers to go to. Read More
New York Times has an article published today, entitled How Privacy Vanishes Online, discussing how advanced computer systems can pretty much pinpoint to who and where a query came from. Computer scientists who have more advanced algorithms and tools at their disposal are now able to tell who a user is even if that user has used, in what the user thinks, complete anonymity. Read More
Piggybacking off of my latest entry on social bookmarking, I have decided to add another bookmarking site into my repertoire. Diigo is such a powerful research and knowledge sharing too, especially for my students as a technology teacher. Perhaps the most powerful knowledge-sharing tool, apart fromTwitter. Do not get me wrong, I still love some of the other bookmarking tools out there, such as delicious, but Diigo’s network and groups are extremely intuitive and offer a myriad of features that other bookmarking sites do not. Read More
NJ.com posted an article this morning, entitled “Students Discovering Online Collaboration” where the author explains part of the revolution that is happening in quite a few schools in New Jersey. The district I teach in has just launched Moodle last week, and I am one of small “test” groups who is using it in the classroom. Read More
Over the past day I have stumbled across numerous articles predicting where the Web and social media will be within 5 years. Two articles that happen to stick out are, The Future of the Web: Where will it be in Five Years? and Six Social Media Trends for 2010. Both articles are very compelling in presenting where we will be and of course my next question, as an educator, is how will and when will this impact education? Read More
