kenneth@voyeurism recently presented a paper which explores how podcasting can be used in geography at the symposium of the commission on geographical education of the international geographic union and the international cartographic association (IGU-CGE) in brisbane. can check out the ideas even if you are not a geography teacher 🙂
URLs:
1. his blog post
2. his presentation’s slide
3. his paper
On social software
was working on my latest ‘production’ for audioblogging/podcasting and went to hunt down some definition of ‘social software’, gotten two good links:
1. My working definition of social software… by Tom Coates (with truly rich exchange in the comments)
2. Are You Ready for Social Software? by Stowe Boyd
Social software are built to:
1. Support for conversational interaction between individuals or groups
2. Support for social feedback
3. Support for social networks
(extracted from Boyd’s article)
Teachers sell lesson plans online
this is surely enterprising …
A new web site launched in April, teacherspayteachers.com, aims to do for teachers what eBay has done for the masses: It gives teachers a far-reaching platform for selling their lesson plans to other interested educators. Buyers say the site helps them quickly find relevant content that can be adapted for their classrooms; sellers say it allows them to earn some extra money for their work.
read the full article from eSN.