Collaborative research with delicious

Social bookmarking is one of those unique Web 2.0 categories that evolved from tasks that people used to do in very isolated manners.  Before Web 2.0, when I came to a website, I would bookmark the site and that bookmark would live on my computer.  More specifically, that bookmark would live inside my Internet browser.  [...]

What’s legal? (Part 2)

Last week, I introduced the concepts of copyright and fair use and provided some resources for determining what is legal to use in classroom situations.  As more and more faculty members begin to use multimedia projects as forms of assessment with their students, I think it’s important that students realize that copyright law governs the [...]

What’s legal? (Part 1)

Recently, a colleague approached me and asked about copyright and fair use as it pertained to education.  As many people on campus begin to include more multimedia projects as forms of assessments (digital stories, podcasts, etc), she basically asked, “What’s legal?”  Is it okay for students to include movie clips in their digital stories?  Is [...]

Showcasing Student Teachers

Last Friday, I helped to organize Millersville University’s first Student Teacher Instructional Technology Showcase.  For this event, we selected seven student teachers that were using technology in innovative ways in their classroom.  Our goal was to highlight the outstanding work being done by our student teachers and to showcase their use of instructional technology to [...]

TED: Ideas worth spreading

Last week, I gave a presentation on Incorporating 21st Century Skills in the Science Classroom at the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C) in Hershey, PA.   At the start of the conference, Sir Ken Robinson gave the keynote presentation entitled “Finding your Passion Changes Everything.”  The main point of the presentation was that each [...]