Archive for April 2006

New Tech Director Blogs

Posted by: rkassissieh
April262006

Back in November, I whined about the lack of school tech director blogs out there. I am pleased to report that two S.F. Bay Area tech directors have recently started their own blogs. Barbara Cohen of Marin Country Day School writes about using vendors for professional development, podcasting in elementary school, and using technology to show the process of learning. She has even started a separate blog for Daisy the Duck, a new arrival on their campus!

Duck Diaries blog

Howard Levin of the Urban School writes on behalf of students with visual processing disabilities, "authentic" uses of classroom technology, and Urban's constructivist approach to student use of gaming and social network sites. Howard is a national leader in the fields of 1:1 student laptop computing and oral history on the web. Check out Telling Their Stories.

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Blogswana Project for HIV/AIDS Education

Posted by: rkassissieh
April072006

Interesting stuff. The Blogswana project aims to train 20 university students to interview and blog on behalf of 20 Batswana who are in some way affected by HIV/AIDS and do not have the capacity to blog themselves. The idea is to make visible the hidden human face of the tragedy in Botswana and give voice to those from the "other side of the digital divide." The project is currently in the funding stage.

Source: Committee to Protect Bloggers (thanks Ben)