Thursday, January 31, 2008
Web 2.0 Educator
I looked at several pod casts and blogs from Wes Fryer who is the man that moves at the speed of creativity. It does not take very long to figure out that Wes Fryer is a man who knows a lot about technology. His blogs and pod casts mostly consisted of various information about technology and how its changing the face of education as we know it. The most interesting blog I read about was his response to a video about cell phones use in the UK. The statistics from that video are amazing of how many teenagers are using cell phones now. In one of his pod casts he presented to a group of students at a school about the benefits of technologies like garage band and the iphone. I found this interesting because we are currently using similar technologies in our class. In another of his blogs Wes Fryer posted an article about plagiarism on Wikipedia. Apparently because Wikipedia is in the public domain anyone can copy anything from it legally without siting it as a source. This came as news to me after 3 years of siting Wikipedia on every project that I was allowed to use the site for information. Wes Fryer’s site had a lot of important information about how technology can be useful in the classroom.
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Good blog entry. I find Wes Fryer equally interesting.
5/6 due to typos: "how its changing the face" should be "how it's changing . . . " but since you're not supposed to be using contractions, it should be "how it is changing"; instead of "The most interesting blog I read about was his response . . ." should be "The most interesting blog entry I read was his response . . . " -- The blog is the whole thing, a blog entry (or posting) is just one part; also, you didn't read about his blog entry, you actually read the blog entry; GarageBand and iPhone are proper names and need to be capitalized appropriately; siting should be citing (think of citation); but you did use the site for information and it is Wes Fryer's site -- cite and site need to be used correctly.
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