Web Literacy

Carol and I spent 45 minutes talking to a group of teachers at the Illinois Reading Conference today. They were very gracious and seemed to soak up the information. Here is our presentation (I published it to SplashCast): Presentation

Much of what I shared is from Alan November – amazing stuff that is so useful [...]

Ms. Dewey

Will Richardson’s statement, “Google is just too boring” caught my eye, so I followed his link to Ms. Dewey. He’s right, this new search engine experiment from Microsoft will catch the attention of many because of a couple of things: entertainment and a real person seeminly talking to me. Ms. Dewey has several intro scenes, [...]

Internet Literacy Whirlwind

A quick, 15-minute presentation of basic Internet literacy skills was overwhelming popular with the C&I faculty a couple of weeks ago. By setting them up with a quiz, showing the new skills that we need to be using and teaching our students, I started the ball rolling that is giving ETIP the punch we’ve been [...]