If you’re interested in wikis in education, have a listen to the Skypecast being held tonight by Steve Hardgadon.
He’ll be talking with me and Vicki Davis of Westwood Schools, one of our most prolific, and most enthusiastic members. Steve and Vicki both have great enthusiasm and passion for what they do so I’m sure it [...]
Posted in Education, Events, Wikispaces on July 7th, 2006 Comments Off
NECC was a blast. It was inspiring to be around so many committed educators and a great learning experience for me. I had so many great conversations I wish I could share them all.
Paul Nelson recorded one conversation we had and has posted it over at K12OS.org.
I’ll try to post some more about my experiences [...]
Posted in Education, Events, Wikispaces on July 6th, 2006 Comments Off
I’m down in San Diego for NECC 2006 and having a great time. Speaking to so many teachers, educators, and technologists about blogs and wikis in education opens my eyes to how much there is to do to bring the value of technology to classrooms.
Steve and the team have put together a really well organized [...]
Posted in Events, Wikispaces on May 26th, 2006 2 Comments »
Tommorow I’m going to be speaking at a session at the NetSquared conference in San Jose.
The session is about “Community Knowledge Bases”. Heddy Nam will be taking about her work at Never Again. She has a really interesting story to tell about the parallels between the community building and connections they try to foster in [...]
Posted in Events, Wikispaces on April 25th, 2006 Comments Off
The audio of our presentation at NetSquared Tuesday is now up for your listening pleasure. When you listen to it, imagine me trying to stand on crutches, talk, and type at the same time.
Our message was and continues to be simplicity. What are we going to do next? Make Wikispaces even easier to use.
Posted in Events, Wikispaces on April 13th, 2006 Comments Off
As we mentioned on Friday, we went along to NetSquared’s Net Tuesday event to tell people interested in technology in the non-profit sector about the great things the Wikispaces community is doing.
While there I was corralled by Eddie Codel for a video profile.
Check it out.
Posted in Events, Wikispaces on April 7th, 2006 Comments Off
If you’re in San Francisco next Tuesday night (11 Apr) come by NetSquared’s Net Tuesday where we’ll be talking about all the great things the Wikispaces community is doing.
NetSquared is about helping non-profits take advantage of technology so we’re really glad to be working to help them.
For those of you who can’t make it, we’ll [...]
Posted in Events, Wikispaces on February 22nd, 2006 4 Comments »
James Byers was recently a guest on the Kojo Nnamdi radio show. The show was a good discussion about the value of Wikipedia and the broad importance of wikis as tools.
Kojo selected his guests well (Ben Bederson, Alex Halavais, and Kat Walsh, along with James) which resulted in a smart and sensible discussion of issues [...]