New print article: “When Educational Resources Are Open”

Over the summer I have served as guest editor for a special issue of Educational Technology magazine on the theme of Opening Educational Resources. This issue has been mailed to the print subscribers, and is not available thus far online. The publisher has given me permission to reprint the article I wrote that is included in the issue and you can read here: When Educational Resources Are Open, by Judy Breck.

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Dinosaur sightings - computers from the past

TechRepublic is a website for IT professionals, but it’s got great content for hobbyists and geeks of all ages. Teachers and students can find some real gold in the thousands of articles, tutorials, forums, blogs, photo collections, and links.

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How to create more buzz around TeachJeffSpanish.com

I am just so darn proud of my kids. I can’t help it! I’m brimming with excitement for the amazing work my 6th graders are doing!

Have you taken a look lately at www.teachjeffspanish.com?

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Pew on Tagging: Self-Organization Grows

Pew’s latest report on tagging doesn’t offer much in the way of surprises: 28% of Internet users tag, 7% on a typical day. Things on the folksonomy front are definitely taking some root. But even here there is evidence of a divide: taggers with broadband outnumber those without almost 2:1, and the higher your income and the better your education, the more you tag. (Interesting, though, that the race/ethnicity with the highest percentage of taggers is black, followed by Hispanic. Wonder what that means…)

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