Having a hard time explaining how to use Rss feeds?

Here is an excellent CommonCraft explanation. Using the Google Reader application to aggregate your favourite blogs

Beginner Blogger Tutorials

I have previously created a set of instructions here explaining how to get started creating a blog. Feel free to print them off. I have come across another terrific resource. It is an excellent screen cast series of step by step instructions explaining how to set yourself up with a Blogger.com Blog.

Voicethread, wikis and Moodle used to engage parents in student learning

Matt Montagne, University School of Milwuakee and Vinnie Vrotny, North Shore Country Day School, Winnetka, Illinois collaborate to support parents. Matt and Vinnie have setup this voice thread, wiki and Moodle to present a parent class on Web 2.0 technologies and how their children are using these tools. Connecting with parents is a focus of both these innovative teachers and their work is precedent setting. Check out the wiki 

Professsional development from EdTechTalk

Jeff Lebow has done it again
EdTechTalk broadcasting EduCon2.0 Science Academy Leadership conference.

The world of professional development is as close as your computer stage. No excuses about attendance and high cost of flights.

Taking your class to the world stage using Ustream

As an intern in the class of 2.4 of Webcast Academy, I have entered a new world that I only dreamed about in 2001. Seven years ago I worked with educators, ICT experts and parents chairing a working group as part of the Ontario Knowledge Network for Learning – a Ontario Ministry of Education initiative. I was excited to join in the development of recommendations for strategic directions on ICT in education. My role was specific to recommendations to connecting parents and the community to the classroom using information and communication technology. Broadband has caught up to the recommendations and the dust is off the cover. Kudos to the Classroom teachers who have now embraced Web 2.0 technologies and taken the lead on creating learning environment for students of the 21st century.

Strong leadership from people like Jeff Lebow, Pam Shoemaker, Derrall Garrison at Webcast Academy have made me an avid student. They have given me the tools to I needed to revisit the use of information communication technology to connect parents to the classroom. Presentations for Parent as Partners such as “From a Principal’s perspective”, an interview with Dan Trainor, Canadian Principal of the year 2007, was created as result.

Podcasts are becoming common place but the instructions for recording two way Skype calls simplified the process and made the SkypeOut interview easy to create. It gets better. Teachers now have the tools needed to broadcast live and take their students and classrooms to the global stage.

Alex Couros from the University of Regina has prepared an excellent tutorial on how to use Skype, Ustream and Camtwist to Broadcast live.

Its hot of the press and there is lots to do.

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