Seek Find Be

This presentation was delivered on July 25, 2008 from the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus as the culmination of Read/Write Web in the Classroom instructed by Alice Barr.

link to class wiki: http://satnamkev.wikispaces.com/

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I suppose web 1.0 was all about information output. Web 2.0 denotes a two way street of information. New York Times journalist John Markoff describes web 3.0 as the intelligent web. Also known as the semantic web, wikipedia claims web 3.0 will include tools such as “Resource Description Framework (RDF), a variety of data interchange [...]

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Less than a Roshak, yet maybe its noteworthy that my heart’s in the corner. This was created when I pasted fifteen pages of journal entries into Wordle. Check it out after you drink some water. Thanks to Lisa Lingo for leading me to the artistic world of my words.

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Bikers=Readers
Bikes without brakes and gears, know as Single-speed bikes have made a come back. I’ve been told they require the rider to make their way around the streets and trail old school, using instinct and quick twitch response rather than the overly cautious and limiting  brakes and gears of modern brakes. I interpreted David Parry’s [...]

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Karl Fisch’s blog, The Fischbowl provides a great history of tech-phobia in schools in the US. Here is a review of the most dreaded going to ruin the kids advances that leading leaders in education have complained about from the last four hundred years: slate, paper, ink, store bought ink, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, calculators, [...]

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Jeff Utecht sets the record straight on the possibilities of education blogging. He writes, “if you do not bring the conversation back into the classroom, they are no different from assignments written on paper”. Time is a constant constrain in the classroom and possibly I reason why blogs are being used in limited short term [...]

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On the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus room 405 in Bailey Hall was kinda like the world. Most of the room was not online as seen above. On the other side of the room, I was among one of ten adults learning the ways of Web life 2.0. I’m a blogger looking at the [...]

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Among the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers, number three: Model Digital-Age Work and Learning, best matches my focus in this course. I can see the utility of blogs in the classroom routine of teaching grading and tracking student progress. Yet I seek to use a blog this year support the smooth operation of [...]

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My first blog post
Smart is a choice! Casco Bay High School’s Peer Tutoring program is a place to get smarter. Students can become smarter as learning partners seeking help on school work and peer tutors who will get smarter by coaching and tutoring learning partners.

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