Demo for HK Summit

I'm here with dedicated educators learning on the weekend at HKIS. I'm asking them these three familiar questions:

1. What is a blog?

A running record of what's happening...

A public journal...

An opportunity to communicate... 

A way toi self reflect and have other reflect on your learning...

2. What is the two-way web or web 2.0?

Interaction...

Feedback...

Creative... 

3. What do blogs and the read/write web mean in education?

Student voice...

Democracy...

Developing thinking processes... 

A place to risk take...

Dynamic...

And now I'm adding some media... as a demo of course.

Multi Media Demo in ON

If you can email attachments, you can blog images... almost.

Homework: Read pages 1-1000 and answer all odd questions 1-500.

Multi-Media Demo for QLD

It's easy to insert images etc...

You can even add a pic from your webcam...

More importantly... you can categorise your post with labels...

Even More Features for Educators!

We already covered most formatting, but look at this cools stuff:

Tonight's Homework

Watch the Star Wars trilogy and compare it to Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey. Write a 50 page paper.

Homework for 2009-01-16

Today's homework is easy:

Read pages 1-1000 and answer questions 1-500 odd. Compose a 500 word reflection on the experience.

Feature Demo

Check out all these cool features. See my blog also. This was an important passage from a recent post:

About a year and a half ago I heard a particularly effective director of educational technology say to his lead teachers, “a student not engaged is a student not learning.” This was in a California district stuck in Program Improvement due to low test scores (which were primarily a function of their large population of English Learners). Unfortunately, the additional assessment burdens the teachers were under would do nothing to solve the fundamental problem of engaging their students. This pioneering director urged the teachers to use technology creatively to engage their students - rather than set their technology aside to spend more time on assessment and intervention focused on “the base program.