This post was last updated on December 12th, 2011 at 03:17 pm
This morning I worked with Grade 5 and 6 students who all have a tablet PC. I’ve been talking to them about building networks and wanted to demonstrate mine in meaningful, fun, engaging way.
So I decided to take them on a tour, using some interactive maps and showed them the power of networks, open API (don’t worry I didn’t actually use that term) and personalized learning.
At 9:17 local time I sent out a tweet looking for help. In 2 hours we managed to talk with 10 different people from mostly North America, save for Jeff Utecht who was in Malaysia at a conference. We got to have a brief chat with each one, found out a little bit about them and even asked one or two intelligent questions. Using Community Walk (as you can see my community is not walkable) we created placemarks and I added some video snapshots as well.
Here’s the map we created on the fly.
Wedding map to share with guests
Kids were amazingly focused, running around the room helping each other, teacher laptop in hand right … Read the rest