Empirical Hexagon: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the Empirical Hexagon. This is a blog designed to explore how the internet can be used in our classrooms to empower our students.
I arrive at the end of my course, umb 611, with a post of reflection. I suppose like all grad school courses it has been a whirlwind tour of copious amounts of information. I entered the course thinking that I had a pretty good idea of what the web had to offer. Google always gave […]
Until a couple of hours ago, I had no idea what Ning was. Well it turns out that Ning is a social networking site for who want to be a little more specific about who they socialize with. I took a look at two great education sites within Ning. The more established of the two […]
Google reader is great for distributing articles, posts, searches and videos on demand, so we don’t have to spend hours and hours searching. Unfortunately, when one doesn’t check often, he/she might find they have 400 feeds to look at. Fortunately, I don’t know anyone like that. As I looked through the first half of my […]
I’ve looked through a bunch of Web 2.0 tools and a few looked pretty interesting from an educational perspective. One that really excites me is the ToonDoo website. At this site students can create their own cartoons. It looks really fun to use and students can use it to present a variety of concepts in […]
I just had a look through the K12 Online Conference for 2006 and viewed a presentation by Rob Lucas and Kevin Driscoll entitled Personal Professional Development “Toward a System of Online Curriculum Sharing.” The presentation was done through PowerPoint slides with an accompanying audio podcast. In the presentation they give an overview of websites already […]
Well today I am a fan of something new. As a part of umb 611 (my class in grad school) I used the social bookmarking site Diigo . Before, I was never really drawn toward these types of sites and services. I thought haveing my bookmarks online might be handy as I switch back and […]
If you go to this link you can visit my little sandbox where I am developing a unit on Waves for physics. Near the top of the page is a slide show I developed with pictures from Flickr’s Creative Commons using the website, Animoto. It’s titled Waves and is set to the song, “The Winds […]
In this post I’ll write about my foray into Flickr. Flickr is an online photo sharing site. I created an account at Flickr, then perused their photos in the Creative Commons section. The Creative Commons means that I can publish what I find guilt free, so long as I say who did it and show […]
The creative commons has thus far in my life played a limited part, but as my public internet persona expands so does my use of the creative commons. Until the fall of this past year I had no idea that the creative commons existed. For a course I was taking I had to create a […]
In part two of my podcast experimentation I discuss what can be done by teachers and students when they make their own podcasts. Enjoy! podcast2