Oh Web 2.0 tools  . . . there are so many out there that you will never be able to try them all. To give you a leg up, we all shared our favorite Web 2.0 tools. Listed below are all of the tools that were shared. Please note that all of these sites have [...]

We have been looking at the new genre of 10″ laptops and/or netbooks for students in the K-2 classrooms. Specifically teachers and students at Jefferson Ave, Brooks Hill and Dudley, led by TVT members, have the opportunity to review samples of these laptops to determine what the key considerations are for a suitable laptop that [...]

My class and I were very excited to have the ipod touch in our room. However, I did not use it to it’s full potential as I was planning to. Now most of that is due to me and not putting it to the top of my list and figuring out how to [...]

Here’s a link to the beginning of my review of the iPod Touch Experiment in the classroom.  I’ll be wrapping it up shortly.

The power of real world audiences can not be under estimated for enhancing the learning of students.  There are many web broadcasting tools available to provide access to a safe real world audience.  The TVT group will take a look at the following tools and share their thoughts.
Ustream
Podium
vyew
These groups will brainstorm list of possible instructional [...]

Today we are reviewing some of our favorite Web 2.0 tools. We broke up into four groups: K-3, 4-6, 7-8, and 9-12.  Thegroups are posting their links on their comments to this posting.  Some of these will be used in the 2010-11 TVT groups.

I was one of the lucky ones who got to experiment with the ipod.  Since I don’t have a class to practice with, I played around with Apps that were free and checked out the eReader feature.
eReader Thoughts: 
I found the ipod a bit small for reading.  I also made the mistake of trying it [...]

Check out this hurricane broadcast today.
Ustream is a vehicle by which  to provide  your students with a real audience.  We know that real audiences are an important ingredient to learning.  Ustream also lets you control who has access to see and interact with your broadcast.
What I would like you to do is to conduct a [...]

There are lots of ebook sites that can be found with free books. One site is WebLiterature which has classics, but also a lot of ads.  Planet eBook, ManyBooks, and the granddaddy of them all Gutenberg are others.  Finally there is the infamous Google Books.  My advice on this is to go to the [...]